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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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He did 42 days, until sentancing had occured theres no way of knowing what he would of been given as a sentance. But by running away hes now certain to face a lot longer inside. _________________Finally joined Flickr
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ShockWaffle
Doesn't have much of a life
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 It makes no difference (technically) if she had consented or not, nor now does it make any difference if she forgives him, nor for that matter if it was settled out of court. The point of an age of consent is that any consent given by a party of lesser age is meaningless. She did not have the legal right to consent to sex when she was 13. She does not have any legal right to forgive any third party for having sex with her at that age. And nor has she ever had any legal right to sell sex at that age (which is what it would amount to if the two parties had settled the matter out of court in return for damages). Polanski is in trouble with the state for his actions as much as with his victim, and he has no right to expect the state to forgive him. The plea bargaining issue is a more technical matter, but if some judge decided to give him 42 days for drugging a minor and sodomizing her, that would probably be deemed unethical and therefore unenforceable. If the deal was for longer than that, then time served is no use as he fled the jurisdiction, and in so doing demonstrated bad faith, therefore he cannot expect any part of the original plea bargain to count in his favour. I don't see what possible hope he can have for getting out of this, and he has no sympathy from me either.
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big_D
What's a life?
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The agreed upon "sentence" was time served... It looked like they were going to reneage and he scarpered... Right or wrong.
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ShockWaffle
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Thus rendering any deal null and void.
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pcernie
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Polanski Agreed To Pay Sex Victim $500,000http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World- ... 8534?f=rssYou'd have thought he'd have at least got that bit sorted out, for his own sake in the future if nothing else 
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big_D
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Very true. The guy is/was an idiot.
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pcernie
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How an eagle-eyed junior policeman ended Roman Polanski's 30 years of freedomhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... eedom.htmlThe allegedly cheeky Swiss 
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pcernie
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