What Do You Think?
It appears that Roman Polanski is trying to get a judge here in California to dismiss the sex charge that Roman plead guilty to 30 years ago. Apparently his lawyers think that the recent documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired showed a "pattern of misconduct and improper communications between the court and prosecutors."
That may or may not be true. The problem is though that the judge who presided over the case is dead. Second, it doesn't appear Roman's lawyers have any new evidence other than what the filmmakers discovered. It was a film, and not evidence. You can make anything sound convincing with editing. Finally, Roman plead guilty. Their wasn't a trial. He plead guilty to having sex with a 13 year old girl when he was 45 years old. I don't care if the girl said yes. When a 45 year old girl has sex with a 13 year old girl, something is wrong. He didn't claim he was innocent. He plead guilty. He skipped the country while awaiting his sentencing.
From all accounts, in the intervening years he has behaved himself, but do we really know that? So Roman got to sit over in Europe for the past 30 years without paying any kind of penalty after he plead guilty and now he just wants the whole thing dropped like it never happened? Come on. There is a hearing on the matter on January 21, and I hope the judge shows some common sense and says no. What do you think? Should the state just drop the charges?
