Polish court rejects request to overturn Polanski extradition

Arutz Sheva ^ | 7/12/16

[Eleutheria5]

Poland's Supreme Court rejected a government request to return the extradition case of filmmaker Roman Polanski to a Krakow court.

"Even if we agree with certain views contained in the appeal, we found that the ruling issued by the Krakow Court didn't violate the law," Judge Michal Laskowski said Tuesday.

Polanski, a French-Polish director who is Jewish, fled the United States nearly four decades ago after being convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl. An October 2015 ruling in a Krakow court blocked his extradition. Attorney General Zbigniew Ziobro said the ruling violated Poland’s extradition agreements with the U.S.

Ziobro said he disagreed with the Krakow judge’s claim that Polanski had, in effect, already been punished, and criticized as “incomprehensible” his comments that Polanski would face inhumane treatment in the United States.

The Supreme Court does not rule on guilt or innocence, it only takes into account the possibility of violations of applicable procedures.

In 1977, Polanski was convicted in a Los Angeles court of having sex with the minor girl. Prior to the judgment, he left the U.S.

Fearing arrest, Polanski did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony in 2003 when he received the Oscar for "The Pianist."...

[Eleutheria5]

1. If he lives in France, why is he being extradited from Poland?

2. What's the matter? Is the no pizza in France or Poland?

[Eleutheria5]

is the no pizza = is there no pizza

[Organic Panic]

It wasn’t “rape” rape.

[Mr Radical]

The small fact that he is on the run for raping a minor doesn’t appear to stop him from party-ing round europe: France, Switzerland, Poland, wherever.

Of course, he must have friends (people who see no evil in raping minors) in all the right places.

(And pizzagate just has to be fake news, of course.)

[Graybeard58]

In 1977, Polanski was convicted in a Los Angeles court of having sex with the minor girl.

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They make it sound like statuary rape. It was that and more. Violent forcible rape.

[kingu]

Funny, you or me, we'd be denied entry for an outstanding conviction for most things... Yet bozos like him, Beiber and the rest can go flying around with drug convictions and other assorted crimes (up to and including murder charges) with nary a peep about their records.

It is amazing how concerned they are over his punishment for statutory rape... Now what I really want to know is if he'll face charges and enhancements for fleeing justice as well. You know you or I would have 30 years added to our sentence for that.

[Eleutheria5]

Justin Beiber, the teenybopper idol?

[Eleutheria5]

Aww, just ‘cause he drugged her?

[Eleutheria5]

I boycott his movies.

[bert]

The pizza thing buries the business of one old man and uncovers an epidemic, no pandemic, of immoral leftists routinely committing the crime of sex with young girls

We can’t say under age because that brings the question of age to the front.

[SauronOfMordor]

It wasn’t statutory rape. He drugged a 13 year old then forcibly raped her, vaginally and anally.

[Gay State Conservative]

Europeans...particularly European courts...feel that they're breathtakingly superior to us and our courts.They see us (and our courts) as barbaric,medieval knuckledraggers.That,simply put,is the reason for this ruling and ones like it.

[generally]

ping

I would not be surprised if this is all connected.

[montag813]

is the no pizza = is there no pizza

Nah...the girl raped was far too old for Alefantis and Company's tastes.

[Eleutheria5]

It wasn’t rape rape. It was drug, undress and take her to a hot tub rape.

[Eleutheria5]

So, was she pizza with anchovies, or pizza with blood sausage?

[Eleutheria5]

They may be right about the courts, which are only slightly less insane than European and Israeli courts.