Rittenband was a starstruck judge, and his attempt to make an "example" out of Polanski guaranteed this case was a loser for any district attorney dumb enough to pursue the case decades later:
Experts say the Swiss raise a number of issues about how Polanski, 76, was treated three decades ago by the U.S. justice system — and those issues could easily be referenced if U.S. authorities ask another country to arrest and extradite Polanski.
"Switzerland apparently decided, 'We will not extradite someone back into this legal morass," said Robert Weisberg, a Stanford law professor. "It could be that the effort to bring him back to L.A. was hopeless from the start because, however carefully the extradition papers were prepared, they still would rest on the original proceedings of 1978, which contained a host of perhaps irresolvable issues."
Loyola Law professor Stan Goldman agreed, saying U.S. authorities would need address these questions if they are serious about going forward with additional extradition efforts against the director.
It's time to let the damned thing go and focus on more pressing matters.
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Yes, I heard Mel Gibson's foul-mouthed, vile rants against his now former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, just as the rest of the world has. It isn't anything to make light of, and I hope Gibson's career is on the ropes, at least in the near term. But some people do make light of this and other awful events, and I guess there is an explanation for it.
In my view the guy has clearly "lost it" if he ever had it in the first place.
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God Almighty has endorsed Nevada's resident shithouse rat Sharron Angle for the United States Senate.
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As far as I am concerned, the executive director of Hot August Nights should have been fired as soon as the story was made public about HAN signing a six-year agreement to hold part of the event in Long Beach.
HAN was Nevada-created, period.
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