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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Thank you. You have convinced me that this judge was an idiot when he let Polanski go abroad to finish his film. You have also convinced me that you believe drugging and raping (both vaginally and anally) a 13 year old girl to be wrong and would not do it.
But now Ty is going to have to convince me that this idiot judge who was so lenient in letting him go abroad was a conniving bastard of a hanging judge out for Polanski's ass. How will I reconcile these sides of the same judge?
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I don't think there is any dispute that judge was out for Polanski's ass. I believe he came out and said so to his buddies. Even the Salon piece acknowledged that the documentary made a pretty convincing argument that the judge had gone off the rails. So, if you are a bad man who has done a very bad thing, but you see that your punishment is going to be presided over by a judge who has gone off the rails, engaging in judicial misconduct, and is now solely concerned about doing whatever he can to come off as a tough guy and get more press, do you stay and accept your fate because you have done a very bad thing and therefore no amount of miscarriage of justice in the sentencing phase is too much miscarriage of justice?
