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Article: Is it all over for Roman Polanski?
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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WE HAVE neither the space (nor the moral confidence) to deliver a
definitive judgment on whether the Swiss coppers were right to bang
up Roman Polanski last week, writes DONALD CLARKE
You've heard the arguments already. Nobody contests the assertion
that, 32 years ago, the director had sex with a 13-year-old girl in
Jack Nicholson's Hollywood home. After his arrest, when his lawyer
realised the authorities seemed unlikely to honour a plea bargain,
Polanski fled the US for life as a celebrated emigre in France.
Does it matter that the victim no longer wishes the case to be
pursued? What do we make of the queasy suggestion - particularly
prevalent in French circles - that the ability to ...