http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskicover1.html is the girl's deposition.
Sometimes our justice system does go awry, but I don't understand why in the case of a man who pled guilty, your friend thinks it's more likely that a 13-year-old girl made up 36 pages of that, than that Polanski actually committed the crime he pled guilty to.
(not venting at you, but why are women always liars)
That link is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you.
(Amen re: liars. It was... a challenge to have this conversation with him, because he is an absolutist. He would be the first to say, if he could get past the "wait a minute, there was never a trial so we will never know the evidence," that Polanski almost certainly did it and should be nailed for it. I hope that, with the explanations you, dsmoen, and tsarina have provided, I can get him onto the same page of the discussion as the rest of us are having.)
Here are a couple more links that might be useful:
Polanski in interview with Martin Amis is completely unrepentant (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/): “If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”
Court transcript in which Polanski pleads guilty and states that he knew the age of the victim. (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea1.html)
Success! (He had thought there had been an explicit sentence bargain the judge was reneging on, and the plea clearly refutes that.)
Quoth Don Quixote: "Well, in that case, let the bastard hang. And the people saying, "Oh, poor old rich famous white man, his victim has moved on, why can't the law" are ridiculously full of shit.
Thanks for taking the time to find me links that clarify the situation and assist in my peace of mind."
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Re: I have a question! (Bear with me.)
Date: 2009-10-01 01:24 pm (UTC)Sometimes our justice system does go awry, but I don't understand why in the case of a man who pled guilty, your friend thinks it's more likely that a 13-year-old girl made up 36 pages of that, than that Polanski actually committed the crime he pled guilty to.
(not venting at you, but why are women always liars)
Re: I have a question! (Bear with me.)
Date: 2009-10-01 02:22 pm (UTC)(Amen re: liars. It was... a challenge to have this conversation with him, because he is an absolutist. He would be the first to say, if he could get past the "wait a minute, there was never a trial so we will never know the evidence," that Polanski almost certainly did it and should be nailed for it. I hope that, with the explanations you, dsmoen, and tsarina have provided, I can get him onto the same page of the discussion as the rest of us are having.)
Re: I have a question! (Bear with me.)
Date: 2009-10-01 04:04 pm (UTC)Polanski in interview with Martin Amis is completely unrepentant (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/): “If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”
Court transcript in which Polanski pleads guilty and states that he knew the age of the victim. (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea1.html)
Re: I have a question! (Bear with me.)
Date: 2009-10-01 05:05 pm (UTC)Re: I have a question! (Bear with me.)
Date: 2009-10-01 06:22 pm (UTC)Quoth Don Quixote:
"Well, in that case, let the bastard hang. And the people saying, "Oh,
poor old rich famous white man, his victim has moved on, why can't the
law" are ridiculously full of shit.
Thanks for taking the time to find me links that clarify the situation
and assist in my peace of mind."
Re: I have a question! (Bear with me.)
Date: 2009-10-01 06:48 pm (UTC)