Posted on 05/09/2018 7:12:52 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Just days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel Roman Polanski from its ranks, the director's attorney sent a letter to the organization Tuesday morning, arguing the move was unlawful and threatening to take legal action if Polanski is not granted a hearing.
In his letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Times, Polanski's attorney, Harland Braun, said the academy had failed to follow both its own rules and California law in denying the Oscar-winning director a chance to present his own case. "We are not here contesting the merits of the expulsion decision, but rather your organization's blatant disregard of its own Standards of Conduct in, as well as its violations of the standards required by California Corporations Code," Braun wrote.
The academy's board of governors, which includes such industry heavyweights as Tom Hanks, Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, voted last week to expel the Oscar-winning filmmaker, along with disgraced comedian Bill Cosby, in accordance with new standards of conduct adopted by the group in response to the sexual harassment scandals that have rocked the industry since the fall.
Polanski, who has earned five Oscar nominations for his work on such films as "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sex with a minor, then-13-year-old Samantha Geimer. Since fleeing the country, he has been living in exile in Europe for the past four decades and is considered a fugitive by the U.S. criminal justice system. Cosby was convicted of three counts of sexual assault April 26.
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Anytime. Come back to LA for it.
Whoopi will put in a good word for him. After all, it wasn’t rape-rape.
“threatening to take legal action if Polanski is not granted a hearing.”
Perfect. Grant him the hearing he wants. In California. The US Marshall Service can be waiting at the airport to give him a proper welcome.
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The British have a term for this hubris, they call it “Balls”.
“The academy’s board of governors, which includes such industry heavyweights as Tom Hanks, Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, voted last week to expel the Oscar-winning filmmaker,”
Spielberg? Oh, the irony...
He can convert to Islam and act as though it’s perfectly normal to rape a 13 year old.
[ “threatening to take legal action if Polanski is not granted a hearing.”
Perfect. Grant him the hearing he wants. In California. The US Marshall Service can be waiting at the airport to give him a proper welcome. ]
Won’t work, commiepornia is a “sanctuary state”, tell him to come to Texas for his hearing... We will even pay for his airplane ticket to texas!
If he sued, I would think discovery would have to take place in California, which would mean returning to the US.
“Won’t work, commiepornia is a “sanctuary state”
There is an active California warrant outstanding I believe. There’s also a UFAP beef that’s Federal if I’m not mistaken.
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Exactly
He says from France.
He’s dead meat if he ever sets foot in US
So glad to see the Hollywood perverts going down
Oh please do! That would be so much fun to watch! Imagine what discovery would turn up!!
Yea, you rape a 13 year old, and what? 40 years later you expel him???
Hollywood is a festering rot... its the anus of america.
[ “Won’t work, commiepornia is a “sanctuary state”
There is an active California warrant outstanding I believe. There’s also a UFAP beef that’s Federal if I’m not mistaken.
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If Roman has a Hawaiian Judge for a friend it will be overturned...
Agreed. That rapist pedophile should come back here to protect his position in the MPAA.
He will show up at the hearing with his teenage ‘girlfriend’.
If he sues, I hope be shows up in person (w/council of course).
Baliff!
5.56mm
It’s surprising that he’s still married to Emmanuelle Seigner, since 1989.
As a director, he should understand Catch-22.
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