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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
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?
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This is California state court, right? Even if he were sentenced to life, he would have been eligible for parole in, like, six months.
(In all seriousness, the issue isn't whether we can understand why the bad guy would run. Of course he would. But that's an explanation--not an excuse. I still haven't heard a convincing reason why we shouldn't care about bringing a guy who raped a 13-year old girl to justice.)
AON, the mother of my godson used to be a sex crimes prosecutor in the Bronx. The type of person we're talking about here isn't miraculously rehabilitated after 42 days of psychiatric "observation."* Far be it from me to wonder what he's been doing in France these last 30 years.
CDF
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See Garrido, Philip
