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Quite honestly I don't know why U.S. officials even bothered with the Polanski case given the questionable actions that happened over three decades ago by the court. It's pretty much indisputable that the judge presiding over the case, Laurence J. Rittenband, long since dead, engaged in behavior that cast doubt anything more could have been done legally.

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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It appears people who want to hang director Roman Polanski over an ancient case will never get their wish, as Swiss authorities have refused to extradite him to the United States and he is now free from house arrest.

Despite the view of some self-righteous people out there, when it was clear there was judicial misconduct in this case and even the victim of Polanski's actions wanted the matter dropped, the thing was dead in the water.

The tabloids will have to settle on Al Gore or somebody else instead.
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The excellent Broad Report has a list of people who are enrolled in this year's Broad Superintendent Academy, and many if not all on the list haven't a fucking clue about education, regardless of whether they work in public schools.

One person on the list is from my (soon-to-be former) area of Reno, Nevada.

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An appeal by Roman Polanski's lawyers exposes new allegations of judicial misconduct by the now-deceased judge Laurence J. Rittenband:

While much of what the documentary revealed about the case was believed to have been unknown until recently, new testimony by Roger Gunson, the lead prosecutor in the 1977 hearings, suggests that prominent officials in the Los Angeles and California criminal justice system were well aware of Judge Rittenband’s behavior at the time and did nothing to stop it.

According to the appeal filed Thursday, Gunson informed his superiors at the district attorney’s office at the time of the original court proceedings that he was preparing to file papers calling for the removal of Rittenband from the case. He gave a draft of his affidavit to Los Angeles County’s Chief Deputy District Attorney Stephen Trott and supervising Deputy District Attorney Michael Montagna. When asked how they could verify Gunson’s claims against the judge, Gunson invited them to talk to Rittenband personally.

Trott and Montagna then met with Rittenband and reported back to Gunson. Incredibly, they informed Gunson that Rittenband had “admitted all of the alleged misconduct,” but that in spite of this they would deny Gunson permission to have the judge dismissed from the case.

This revelation exposes the degree to which illegal conduct prevailed in the 1977 court proceedings, involving not only the behavior of the judge, but also conduct “at the highest levels of the district attorney’s office in August 1977,” in the words of the appeal. It is now clearer than ever before that Roman Polanski was never granted a fair trial in the US. His constitutional rights have been violated repeatedly during the entire affair.

Cute. Those who want to tar and feather Polanski simply overlook the fact this judge fucked the case up from the get-go.

Crime, Etc.

Killer Betty Broderick, a "feminist" heroine in some demented circles of our country because she was a wife who was treated like crap by her rich ambulance-chasing husband when he dumped her for a much-younger woman and killed them both in a rage, was denied parole for the 1989 killings.

This woman was so demented that she wasn't happy she was getting $16,000 a month; instead, she had to terrorize ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda and ultimately killed the golden goose.

She had everything at one point and wound up with absolutely nothing but a prison term.

Broderick STILL can't admit what she did was heinous.

This is interesting:

Kathy Lee Broderick, 38, said at the parole hearing she wanted her mother to come live with her, even though she still misses her father.

"She should be able to live her later life outside prison walls," she said.

However, her younger brother, Dan Broderick, 33, said his mother was "hung up on justifying what she did."

"In my heart, I know my mother is a good person," he said. "But along the way she got lost. Releasing a lost person into society could be a dangerous mistake."

Another report is here:

The story Betty Broderick told was so compelling it took on a life of its own. It apparently did withstand the test of time as she went before the parole board. Hindsight tends to paint a sharper -- and harsher -- picture.

Betty's version: She was a stay-at-home mom who worked to put her husband through medical and law school only to lose her "Ward and June Cleaver" marriage when her husband fell under a younger woman's spell.

Larry Broderick's story: No, she did not put her husband through school. No, they did not have an idyllic marriage. "Normal people just don't seem to get that murderers will lie to save their skin," he told CNN. "And, did you know that dead people have no rights? A person can slander and libel and say anything they want about a dead person, and you can't stop it."

"What the public sees is the older woman dumped for the younger woman, and they get upset about that and forget all the rest," Sachs said.

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Another famous killer isn't likely to fare as well as Broderick:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a ruling that had set aside the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in the 1980s in a racially tinged case that has made the former Black Panther an international cause celebre.

The justices ordered the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to revisit its 2008 ruling that Abu-Jamal deserved a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions.

The Supreme Court pointed to its decision in an Ohio case last week, when it said a neo-Nazi killer did not deserve a new sentencing hearing on those grounds.

A mostly white Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Jamal of killing white Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.

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Betty Broderick and Muzzammil Hassan should get together to commiserate. After all, he, too, was abused, in his case by the wife he ultimately beheaded.
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The light is dimming and about to go out for songwriter/sexual assault defendant Joseph Brooks if he doesn't come up with some cash--quick--to stay out of jail.

He's now being accused of faking his sickness.
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In Polanski news, Samathan Geimer is not happy about an L.A. judge moving to have Polanski extradited to the U.S.
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Miscellaneous News

A new "liger" makes northern Nevada her home.

Like mules, "ligers" are sterile.
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Ashland, Oregon, adopts a citywide nudity ban, but the ACLU threatens to sue over it.
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Two Democratic senators, Dodd of Connecticut and Dorgan of North Dakota, are not running for re-election.
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Roman Polanski asks to be sentenced in absentia.
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The most popular story in the world is about the Kansas City woman, still unidentified, who trashed a local McDonald's because she was unhappy with the way her hamburger was fixed. The idiot wanted a refund, but the clerks said it couldn't be done. Then she proceeded to throw a fit.

Here is the video, which tens of millions of people have viewed.

Unfortunately, it is silent footage.

A video report:



There are a lot of idiots in the world. This is going to cost her a lot more than a hamburger when the police catch her.

Miscellaneous News

The American Law Institute has decided to gut its death penalty framework by declaring it a failure:

The institute is made up of about 4,000 judges, lawyers and law professors. It synthesizes and shapes the law in restatements and model codes that provide structure and coherence in a federal legal system that might otherwise consist of 50 different approaches to everything.

In 1962, as part of the Model Penal Code, the institute created the modern framework for the death penalty, one the Supreme Court largely adopted when it reinstituted capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. Several justices cited the standards the institute had developed as a model to be emulated by the states.

The institute’s recent decision to abandon the field was a compromise. Some members had asked the institute to take a stand against the death penalty as such. That effort failed.

Instead, the institute voted in October to disavow the structure it had created “in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment.”

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A young Sparks, Nevada, area woman is battling a rare skin disease which has caused her to give up career ambitions and forced her to go on disability:

n June 2009, Hail was diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), an extremely rare, chronic skin disease that creates blockages around oil glands and hair follicles of various areas on the body. It causes blotchy abscesses on the outside of the skin, embeds epidermic cysts under the skin and traps fluids created by the body’s sweat glands. Though its infections and inflammations look like typical acne, the disease is painful and nearly disfiguring to the body after multiple surgeries, which are often needed to remove the excess fluids.

Hail was diagnosed at stage three, the worst of the condition, and she has abscesses the size of baseballs, scarring and sinus tract formations.

Even worse, little can be done because so little is known about HS. Hail, now 21 and a Fernley resident, who said she’d been rather shy about it in the past, now wants to help raise awareness and education to help those who suffer from it and that the medical community perhaps one day might find a cure.

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Pepsi Throwback, the drink I love so much, is making a limited-time comeback for two months.

Production started last week.
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Of course the "G-spot" was nothing but a hoax. It was clear from the time that silly book from 1982 came out.

Some authors got rich off it, though.
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The Suleman octuplet's doctor is being accused of gross negligence by the state.
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An L.A. judge has set a hearing for the Polanski case.
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I'll provide this link in case anybody gives a shit about Warren Beatty.

Personally I find him disgusting.
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The Washington Post has a photo gallery of the world's tallest buildings.
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Roman Polanski has lost an appeal, but that doesn't mean his argument about judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in his original case is not valid:

But referring to Polanski's claims of backroom dealings and other improprieties by the original trial judge, now deceased, and a prosecutor, she added, "We do not disregard the extremely serious allegations of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct that have been brought forward, but urge the parties to take steps to investigate and to respond to the claims."

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Brooke Astor's son, only 85, has been sentenced to three years in prison, which at his age might just as well be life.

This devoted son was convicted of stealing from his mother to the tune of millions of dollars:

Justice A. Kirke Bartley Jr. said Mr. Marshall, who is 85, must report to prison on Jan. 19.

The sentence was for the most serious of 14 counts on which Mr. Marshall was convicted: first-degree grand larceny, for giving himself a retroactive lump-sum raise of about $1 million for managing his mother’s finances. Justice Bartley also sentenced Mr. Marshall to one year on each of the 13 other charges he was convicted of, to run at the same time as the longer sentence.

If Mr. Marshall has a good record in prison, he is likely to serve roughly eight months behind bars. He showed no response as Justice Bartley read the sentence, although his wife, Charlene, was heard to sob from her seat in the courtroom.

“It is a paradox to me that such abundance has led to such incredible sadness,” Justice Bartley said. “Your acts notwithstanding, I do believe you did love your mother. The question of what you did was settled by the jury’s verdict.”

The rich really ARE different.
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This 91-year-old man should get life in prison for trying to kill his 78-year-old wife, but he won't:

Claude Montgomery, the 91-year-old Roseville man who was arrested in October for allegedly trying to kill his wife, has pleaded guilty to charges of assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting corporal injury to a spouse and making criminal threats.

Montgomery entered the pleas Friday before Placer County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Penney and will receive six months in jail and will be placed on formal probation for four years when he returns for sentencing on February 3.

In an arrangement made with the Placer County District Attorney's Office, Montgomery is expected to serve all 180 days in custody and then move to the Bay Area with relatives, and away from the victim in Roseville.

Prosecutor Jim Deslaurier said the investigation into the case and its unique circumstances factored into the agreement that allowed Montgomery to plead to the charge of felony assault likely to produce great bodily injury, but the offense will not count as a strike on his criminal record. A charge of attempted murder was dismissed.

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Something was wrong with Congress to have a passed a bill which included extending UI for two more months and have done it with lightning speed.

They must have received a ton of complaints about the holdup from last time.
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Miscellaneous

Roman Polanski will be released Friday to his Swiss chalet where he will be monitored.
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No surprise here as the NY state senate rejected legalizing same-sex marriage.

It's just not gonna happen nationwide in my lifetime or in the next.
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Obama's making a fool's choice in his escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

However, I don't think he was preferable to Hillary Clinton by a long shot. Only somebody who is ignorant of Obama's neoliberal tendencies would write such a thing.
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Miscellaneous Articles

Roman Polanski was granted bail, but there is no chance of him running away:

The court said Polanski could stay at his chalet in the Swiss Alps. He would be monitored by an electronic tag.

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Germany restores a record to Gretel Bergmann some 73 years later.

She's still alive at 95 years of age.
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In an appearance of Oprah Winfrey's program, Vicki Kennedy describes her late husband Ted's cancer ordeal:

She also told Winfrey about how her husband kept working on his book after his diagnosis and even was calling colleagues in the Senate to talk about strategy to push through legislation as he was traveling to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. to undergo brain surgery.

"It was an inspiration, really, to watch how Teddy grappled with such a grave diagnosis and always looked forward with hope," she said.

After watching a clip of her husband's speech at the Democratic National Convention, Kennedy said her husband, despite being told initially that he had just a few months to live, was determined to survive long enough to see Obama sworn in as president.

"He was in training to be there in January," she said. "He was exercising every single day to be strong enough to be there," and even calculated how many steps he would have to take that day.

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I have been on Keystone Canyon Trail a few times. It is a good workout.

I have taken pictures of this area, too:

link
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Not Dead Yet's Stephen Drake takes a look at bioethicist Art Caplan's take on the case of Ron Houben, who was said to have been PVS, but lo and behold, he wasn't.
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Polanski, Etc.

The Swiss have rejected Polanski's third request for bail.

How did Samantha Geimer's (then Samantha Gailey) words get lost in the hoopla surrounding Roman Polanski's case?

I don't think it even matters now. I have maintained all along that if she wants the matter dropped, who am I to say the freakshow should be allowed to continue?

So How Was It

after over 30 years of doing basically nothing, the U.S. and Swiss governments decided to go after director Roman Polanski?

A series of e-mails uncovered by the Associated Press reveal that prosecutors in Los Angeles were closely monitoring Polanski’s activities in late September while the director was in Austria for the opening of a musical based on one of his films.

Serious discussions took place as to whether Polanski should be taken into custody there. Los Angeles deputy district attorney Diana Carbajal had doubts about the cooperation of the local authorities, writing to her colleagues, “I don’t have experience with any Austrian extraditions so I don’t know how ‘friendly’ they would be to extradition on such a case.”

Polanski was so closely watched—by whom?—that Carbajal knew when the director had checked out of his hotel in Austria on the morning of September 23, and that he would be heading to a film festival in Zürich, Switzerland, ahead of schedule. Carbajal wrote to colleagues asking if it would be more favorable to “maintain our position to extradite from Switzerland.’’ She received confirmation, and Polanski was arrested upon his arrival in Zürich.

The Associated Press notes blandly: “It is unclear from the e-mails why Los Angeles officials were concerned about Austrian cooperation on a Polanski extradition request. There was no reference to Polanski’s history as a Jewish Holocaust survivor whose mother died in Auschwitz, or the sensitivities about having him pursued in the land of Adolf Hitler’s birth.”

The WSWS has a point about how much time has been wasted going after an old man whose victim has long since forgiven him, but Wall Street crooks are allowed to walk the streets free.

Speaking of the victim, Samantha Geimer is very worried her life is going to be ruined because of all of the circus atmosphere surrounding this matter.

That was why she and her mother didn't want a trial in the first place. But watch the pseudo-feminists say it's not Geimer's call whether or not Polanski be tried. Who gives a shit, after all, what the victim thinks, even if prosecutors couldn't really bring a case against Polanski other than the fact he fled the country? These pseudo-feminists want to make Polanski an example for whatever stupid cause they have.

Polanski has a number of legal options:

Legal experts, however, said Polanski has options beyond begging for leniency. There are a number of legal maneuvers, such as withdrawing his guilty plea, that could result in the case being dropped entirely or in a sentence of no prison time.

More:

The victim of Roman Polanski’s 1977 sex charge has asked an appellate court to drop the charge against the film director, saying the unceasing publicity has disrupted her family, job and health.

Since the director’s arrest last month, Samantha Geimer and her attorney have received close to 500 phone calls from media as far as Germany, Israel and Japan, attorney Lawrence Silver wrote in a statement filed Friday.

Larry King and Oprah have beckoned, and photographers have been camped outside her Hawaii home, trying to take photos or video through holes drilled in their cars and offering gifts to her children in exchange for information, Silver wrote.

“This statement makes one more demand, one more request, one more plea: Leave her alone,” Silver wrote in the filing.

Let her live her life, for crying out loud.

Miscellaneous

The WSWS received some letters regarding its editorials on the Roman Polanski mess. Not all of the published letters agree with the site's writers.
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Thanks to all of the sensational reports about the Edwards marriage, North Carolina residents are divided about the matter, even though John Edwards is now a private citizen.
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Miscellaneous

The Polanski case means something far different today than when it happened over 30 years ago.

Times are much less forgiving today towards adults who have sex with the underaged. That's the problem with people who are ready to lynch the elderly director. One has to go back to the times, not try and mold the ancient case to current attitudes.
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Scientists now believe previous theories about archaeopteryx may be for the birds.
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Indigent burials are now on the rise thanks to the worsening economy:

The increase comes as governments short on cash are cutting other social service programs, with some municipalities dipping into emergency and reserve funds to help cover the costs of burials or cremations.

Oregon, for example, has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of unclaimed bodies over the past few years, the majority left by families who say they cannot afford services. “There are more people in our cooler for a longer period of time,” said Dr. Karen Gunson, the state’s medical examiner. “It’s not that we’re not finding families, but that the families are having a harder time coming up with funds to cover burial or cremation costs.”

People From All Across the Political Spectrum

are ready to hang Roman Polanski on those ancient charges; worse still, so-called "feminists" are the first in line to lynch him.

Of course few of the commentators know what in the hell they are talking about.

Polanski made no such admission. An agreement was reached between Polanski, his lawyers and the prosecutor, reportedly with the approval of the victim herself, to settle the matter on the basis of a guilty plea to a lesser charge.

The grand jury testimony of the victim, recently unsealed, is being cited as though it were proven fact. But this testimony was never tested in a court of law. The lesser charge to which Polanski pled guilty, not rape, is legally the only basis for any action taken against him.

Katha Pollitt of the Nation chimes in, “If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him a get-out-of-jail-free card? If you’re Roman Polanski, world-famous director, a lot of famous and gifted people think the answer is yes.”

The dismissal of the legal issues is extraordinary. After enumerating the initial, more serious allegations, Pollitt writes: “Those facts are not in dispute—except by Polanski, who has pooh-poohed the whole business many times… He was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge, like many accused rapists, to spare the victim the trauma of a trial and media hoopla.”

Facts are troubling things, but what harm is there in a little bit of demagoguery by Pollitt and other self-described "feminists"?

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

It appears director Roman Polanski may be spending quite a bit of time in jail after all.

Naturally public reaction, especially in the United States, has been "mixed" when perhaps 90 percent of the population knows little or nothing about the case, let alone the machinations that went on behind closed doors with Judge Rittenband.

Again, what purpose does all of this serve besides helping the tabloid media with yet another sideshow story and wasting the taxpayers' money?

More Misc

Just when you think you have heard it all, something else comes along that floors you with its absolute awfulness:

The children of a former Manteca police lieutenant say a Stockton emergency room doctor allowed their father to die so the doctor could steal the man's expensive Rolex watch, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

Dr. Cleveland Enmon was indicted by a San Joaquin County grand jury for grand theft last month stemming from the June incident at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton. Enmon, 32, of Hermosa Beach is also facing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the adult children of Jerry Kubena, Sr.

Enmon is scheduled to be arraigned in San Joaquin County court Monday.

Kubena, a retired Manteca police lieutenant, was rushed by ambulance to St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton on June 1 with heart problems. According to a 15-page civil lawsuit, Kubena's family alleges Enmon noticed Kubena's expensive Presidential Rolex watch, then allowed Kubena to die from a heart attack so he could steal the watch.

The lawsuit states that two nurses at the hospital noticed the missing watch after Kubena died and saw a watch bulge in Enmon's pocket.

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Did Roman Polanski's lawyers contribute to the director's arrest in Switzerland?

Miscellaneous News

The WSWS has commentary about Roman Polanski's arrest on ancient charges.

Commenters from around the country and world are wanting to lynch Polanski, and never mind the pesky facts surrounding his fleeing the United States. From this link is a rare comment of sanity:

Many of the details of this case are frequently overlooked, ignored or lost in the mists of time. At the time of the original case, BOTH Polanski's defense attorney, the prosecuting district attorney, Roger Gunson, the probation office report and the victim's family argued for a plea bargain. At the time of the case, no one initially wanted prison time for Polanski except publicity-crazy and often unpredictable Judge Laurence J. Rittenband. Rittenband changed his mind at the last minute with regard to Polanski's punishment. All sides had agreed that Polanski would serve only 90 days in Chino during a psychiatric evaluation. After 42 days and a psychiatric evaluation of "normal," prison authorities released Polanski fearing for his life and safety. Infuriated and fearing he would be accused for being "soft on crime," Rittenband announced to the lawyers that he planned to put Polanski back in prison contradicting what had been previously agreed upon. Polanski fled to France in 1978 while awaiting sentencing when it became apparent that Rittenband was going to ignore the terms of Polanski's original plea agreement . Subsequent to Polanski's fleeing the US there have been numerous allegations of serious prosecutorial violations including serious violations by Rittenband. The victim received an undiclosed settlement from Polanski and wants the case dismissed. This case will sadly become an international mess, will cost thousands and will ultimately be dismissed. In the meantime it serves as a catnip for a celebrity starved culture.

For those idiots who think it is not Samantha Geimer's case but the state's, how the fuck is the state going to prosecute an ancient case where the victim is not going to be of help in their case, as she wants it dropped? It ain't gonna happen, folks, no matter how much fake outrage there is over this "child molester" getting off the hook.

Not to mention a total waste of taxpayers' money in a state which is damned near broke:

Meanwhile, Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer, long ago announced that she had forgiven the filmmaker for his transgressions and supported various efforts to have the case against him dismissed. I don't think that you'd find many people who would approve of Polanski's behavior, which was disgusting -- he drugged his victim with Champagne and Quaaludes before raping her during a 1977 photo session at Jack Nicholson's house.

But at a time when California is shredding the safety net that protects the poor and the unemployed, not to mention the budget of the public school system, you'd hope that L.A. County prosecutors had better things to do than cause an international furor by hounding a film director for a 32-year-old sex crime, especially one that Polanski's victim wants to put behind her. As Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary, "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," ably chronicled, the original prosecution of Polanski was marred by all sorts of embarrassing missteps and strange behavior, largely by Laurence Rittenband, the original presiding judge.

This damned thing needs to be dropped.
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In case you care to read the From the Wilderness editor Michael Ruppert's sexual harassment case, in which a former employee was awarded damages, it is here.

The meat of the decision is on page 32, with the facts, etc.
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Miscellaneous Whatever

The media have something else than Michael Jackson's death to obsess over:

Director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police for possible extradition to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, authorities said Sunday.

Polanski was flying in to receive an honorary award at the Zurich Film Festival when he was apprehended Saturday at the airport, the Swiss Justice Ministry said in a statement. It said U.S. authorities have sought the arrest of the 76-year-old around the world since 2005.

"There was a valid arrest request and we knew when he was coming," ministry spokesman Guido Balmer told The Associated Press. "That's why he was taken into custody."

Balmer said the U.S. would now be given time to make a formal extradition request.

Given the fact there was clear judicial misconduct (Polanski served his 42-day sentence but the judge reneged on the agreement--clearly wrong) and the fact victim Samantha Geimer wants the case dropped, the whole circus should be ended with a dismissal of the ancient charges.
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Former president Bill Clinton mentions President Obama is going through the same crap he went through from the radical right.

Miscellaneous News

Roman Polanski is shit out of luck this go-round. His lawyers will appeal.
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Nevada taxpayers are working hard so that their legislators don't have to:

A Republican assemblyman has been verbally reprimanded for looking at sexually explicit material on his laptop computer during an Assembly floor session last week, according to Assembly Majority Leader John Oceguera, D-Las Vegas.
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Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Armagosa Valley, was spotted by a legislative police officer looking at what appeared to be naked women dancing on his computer screen as lawmakers were debating a handful of bills during floor session Saturday, according to a report filed by the legislative police.

Miscellaneous News

Since chimpanzees are so strong and can be extremely dangerous, people should avoid them like the plague. Unfortunately, a friend of an owner of one got badly mauled. Police, meanwhile, shot the chimp dead. The 200-pound chimp was an animal actor in the past.

In all honesty, people have no business having chimps as pets.
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Roman Polanski's hearing over an ancient unlawful sexual intercourse case puts focus on a documentary filmmaker whose film on Polanski is being used by his attorneys to throw the case out.

As mentioned previously, Polanski's goal in having the case dismissed is so he is able to work outside of France. He has no intention of returning to the U.S., but he would like to be able to go to other countries to make films.
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