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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:10 PM
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Polanski granted bail by Swiss court
Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who is being held in Switzerland on a U.S. extradition request related to a sex charge, has been granted bail, a Swiss federal police spokesman told CNN Wednesday.

The Oscar-winning director must post bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.5 million) and remain under house arrest, Falco Galli said.

The Swiss Federal Office of Justice has 10 days to appeal the decision, he said.

Galli could not provide further details, but said Polanski's lawyers have been notified about the development.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/25/switzerland.polanski.bail/index.html
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:15 PM
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1. Will he run?
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Sub Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:15 PM
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2. Does a bear shit in the woods?
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:22 PM
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4. Yodel-ay-dee-who? He's doing the von Trapp family thing as we speak prolly.
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 03:09 PM
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13. He will certainly not run, I predict.
Nor will he be extradited to any country/jurisdiction that so selectively applies/doesn't apply its own laws/international laws.

Whiners.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:17 PM
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3. Yeah, this makes sense......
Justice for the rich, powerful, and popular.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:27 PM
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5. The support he received here on DU was appalling
Then again he is a rich *artiste*
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:28 PM
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6. But we cannot deny the world his "gift!"
:eyes:
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 06:37 PM
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20. And an OSCAR-WINNING one at that!
Don't you like how CNN added that, as if it's at all relevant?
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pattmarty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 02:40 PM
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9. No, what I think you REALLY meant was for the "Hollywood, the Liberal, and the poor".
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 02:48 PM
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10. Polanski is poor?
And I did not know that rape is a liberal tenant. :eyes:
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JonQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 01:59 PM
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7. Umm . . . do they not understand the concept of "flight risk" over there? nt
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 02:38 PM
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8. That's it. Off with his head.
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 02:56 PM
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11. Hellooo Uruguay!
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Swede Atlanta Donating Member (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 03:08 PM
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12. It is up to the Swiss justice system................
Many of the same DUers that admonish those on the right for having a holier than thou attitude about how our system is the best come on DU and express the same kind of nonsense.

He is in Swiss custody. The Swiss are not stupid. The decision regarding bail and the corresponding flight risk will be made in accordance with Swiss law and justice.

We are asking others to have confidence in our system to try the 9-11 mastermind and his co-conspirators in New York. I suggest we give the Swiss some credit here.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 03:11 PM
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14. Kind of like Swiss banking laws...
Those worked out well.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 02:29 AM
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24. I wonder whether the US will soon be extraditing those 22 convicted CIA agents to Italy
Edited on Thu Nov-26-09 02:29 AM by Heidi
for sentencing?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 10:29 AM
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28. Polanski is a war criminal?
:shrug:
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U4ikLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 10:45 PM
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39. No, war criminals are should be a higher priority than Polanski.
get it...nah, you are trying to be obtuse.
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24601 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 10:40 AM
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30. Italy lost that fight when they failed to follow another Treaty, the Status
of Forces Agreement. When they included an active duty military person in the trial - after the US invoked SOFA - then they invalidated their action. In short, they cannot enforce the law by violating the law.
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gopiscrap Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 03:21 PM
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15. Can he afford to lose that much money by running?
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 04:38 PM
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16. WHATTTTT???? This guy went on the lamb for 30 years!
I'm sorry to all the Polanski sympathizers who think it's "mean" to keep such a brilliant man behind bars (Whoopie are you listening?) but he deserves to sit in prison until he is extradited. Why take the chance with that scum bag who has proved he is a flight risk? Just to be nice to him? Didn't he already live on borrowed time and comfort for the last thirty years?
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 04:56 PM
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17. Hee hee...I think you mean "on the lam"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive#.22On_the_lam.22
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 02:19 AM
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23. Many thanks to the vocabulary police. Now go to the mattresses. (n/t)
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 09:48 PM
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38. Maybe on the lamb
This is Roman Polanski, after all.

:rofl:
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 05:36 PM
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18. I wonder what kind of deal was struck? I doubt that the L.A. prosecutor
had any part in it. But then, . . . . I could be wrong. Maybe Polanski, although guilty, has some kind of card up his sleeve.
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Jefferson23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 06:20 PM
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19. Disgusting pig is granted bail, that is what the headline should read.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 07:50 PM
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21. Great. Just great.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Knowing Hollywood, he'll end up directing the film version of "How I Learned To Drive".
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-25-09 09:54 PM
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22. WTF?
This monster should never see the light of day again.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 04:48 AM
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25. What bullshit.
The only thing that old pedo deserves is a plane ticket to California and an orange jumpsuit for when he deplanes.
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 09:31 AM
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26. Word.
n/t
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Flagg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 09:44 AM
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27. Polanski is more evil than Hitler. Kill him. Kill him now.
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DonkeyHoTay Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-26-09 10:34 AM
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29. yawn...
Even the alleged victim, according to recent reports. does not support a prosecution. It is hard to justify the prosecution of this case after all these years... Does anyone really care?
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 08:54 PM
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36. Um excuse me for "caring" that a grown man druggged then put his DICK
inside a 13 year old girl, and then fled the country when his sweetheart deal looked like it was going to fall through, thus avoiding his JUST sentence for a charge to which he plead GUILTY. So yeah some people care about that and no amount of, artistic film making will ever obviate the need for punishing a man who, let me repeat it, drugging a 13 year old girl then sticking his dick in every orifice - forcefully.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 04:21 PM
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31. ???
i don't think that the death penalty applies to people who drug and anally rape 13-year olds... :shrug:
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 04:37 PM
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34. Especially since she was a hooker...
according to Gore Vidal.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 04:54 PM
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35. if you pay a hooker wih a check, and it bounces...
is it considered rape?
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 04:23 PM
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32. It's not like he's a flight risk
except for that last time. :eyes:
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 04:32 PM
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33. I see the pound of flesh crowd's having their cows
Here's something to calm you down: the guy's staying in Switzerland and has electronic monitoring. So you'll get your chance to have him die in US prison.
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-27-09 08:56 PM
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37. No....serving his sentence for raping a 13 year old will do just fine.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 02:40 AM
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40. Which means dying in a US prison
At least be honest with yourself- and at least recognize who and what you youself are at the same time.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 02:51 AM
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41. how so?
his sentence wasn't particularly long.
there's no reason to believe that he would die while serving it.
he'll also probably ultimately be given credit for his stay in swiss jail, as well as the monitored home-confinement.
by the time it's cleared up- he may not have any sentence left.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 02:59 AM
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42. We shall see
My bet is that it's going to be something in the range of 20+ years (and of course, that won't even be enough- as it's NEVER enough for some).
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 10:10 AM
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43. if he serves ANY time in a california prison...
it will be no more than 2 years.

but- if he is sentenced to a stretch that ends up with him dying in prison...so what? is he somehow above criminal punishment?
he's guilty of at least two fairly serious crimes- rape, & jumping bail(whatever the actual offense is categorized as) is there some extraordinary reason why he shouldn't serve the requisite prison time?
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 10:58 AM
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44. How are those things equal?
Unless he dies of old age while in prison, any time he serves will be in protective custody. Can't help it if he dies of old age. He could have avoided that eventuality happening in prison. All he had to do was serve his sentence back in the 70's. He would have been free for 20 years by now, and free of the oh so unfair burdens of being a fugitive living in France making millions:

after RAPING a 13 year old girl. Why is it again you are so sympathetic to a pederast and a rapist?



If he dies in prison it is HIS fault. Not mine or the prison system's.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 11:17 AM
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45. Cry me a river.
Are you that concerned about everybody who pleads guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, or Polanski in particular?
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 12:30 PM
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46. Nicely done!
Americans rarely disappoint when it comes to matters like this.

Is it any wonder that you've built and maintain the world's largest- growing and most expensive prison system?
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DrCory Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 05:41 PM
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47. You didn't answer the question...interesting. Why not? N/T
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 10:23 PM
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48. Because I neither think nor feel shallowly like some do
Edited on Sat Nov-28-09 10:23 PM by depakid
And I'm not addicted to outrage and punishment at all costs.
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