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Directors At Cannes Sign Petition Supporting Roman Polanski As He Fights Extradition To L.A.



May 13, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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Los Angeles Times:

Roman Polanski is getting more support from the movie industry in his battle to avoid extradition to face sentencing in a sex case in Los Angeles.

Several noted directors have signed a petition in support of Polanski at the Cannes Film Festival.

The effort comes several days after a Los Angeles judge denied Polanski’s request to unseal transcripts of recent testimony by the original prosecutor in his 33-year-old sex-crime case, rejecting arguments that they were necessary for the filmmaker’s extradition proceedings.

Polanski is under house arrest in Switzerland, awaiting word on whether Swiss authorities will send him back to L.A. to face sentencing for having sex with a girl more than three decades ago.

Polanski broke his silence on the issue earlier this month, claiming L.A. prosecutors want “to serve me on a platter to the media of the world.”

“I can remain silent no longer because the California court has dismissed the victim’s numerous requests that proceedings against me be dropped, once and for all, to spare her from further harassment every time this affair is raised once more,” Polanski wrote.

According to the Associated Press, directors Jean-Luc Godard, Mathieu Amalric and Bernard Tavernier have signed the petition at Cannes.

The petition reads in part: “They hereby appeal to the Swiss authorities, entreating them not to believe the word of Governor [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and the prosecutors of the state of California.


  • The Sentinel at the Gate

    Roman Polanski – now there’s a dirty name with a sordid past. While I was in Germany last week, I noticed his Vampire opera was all the rage there. Seems this child molester can still make money but there’s one thing for sure – he will never be extradited back to the US where he can make small rocks out of big ones. That’s how Socialism rolls – protect the molesters, murders and thieves from justice because they serve the greater cause – Evil!

  • Bud

    Just as it was outrageous for the Catholic Church, to put the untarnished reputation of its priesthood above children’s sufferings, so too those who put their faith in artists should realize that they too have no special claim to being beyond good and evil.

    But as Polanski never claimed this, he admitted his crime, and paid his dues and thus Polanski wins, because he is not a hypocrite, and because he is by far – the lesser of two evils.

    In fact Polanski may not be evil at all. Polanski may even be really good.
    However California & Santa Monica Judges lose out here because they – in not being beyond evil, parallel the Bishops in covering up sexual molestation cases, within their own Rank & File.

    California Justices are not jumping to investigate Santa Monica Judicial Corruption in Polanski’s case which should send up a big red flag.

    Bait and switch justice, illegal coercion in sentencing, is equivalent to raping criminal defendants & civil plaintiffs, all so the Judges can receive a promotion.

    When a sexual molestation victim in a police cover-up case faces police brutality in the Judge’s Santa Monica Courtroom using undocumented white sheriff deputies, to retaliate, intimidate and silence, so the Santa Monica Judge can gain a promotion to become a California Justice, this is also abuse of Judicial power.

    Finally Federal Judges abuse their power also when they cover up for California Judges and County of Los Angeles White Sheriff Deputy thugs, so the reputation of the men in black robes can remain untarnished, and so California’s sexual molesters, police cover up con-artists, plus California Justice will also remain forever spotless in the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.”

  • Jambini

    Two incompatible Los Angeles Judicial decisions made simultaneously on Sept 19th 1977 kept Roman Polanski’s sentence vague & ambiguous, enabling Los Angeles prosecutors in Sept 2009 to misinform the Swiss Authorities as to Polanski remaining sentence which at worst is 48 days and at best is nothing. And even if 48 days is outstanding it is not 6 months, the magic number.

    Going back 30 years to the 70’s, Why would the original Santa Monica Judge, Laurence J. Rittenband after ruling that Roman Polanski was not a mentally disordered sex offender immediately after rule that Polanski should be evaluated again psychiatrically for another 90 days in California State’s prison facility Chino,

    before that Santa Monica Judge would commit to the 90 day psychiatric evaluation being the final sentence for Roman Polanski, or before the Santa Monica Judge would commit to, and reveal a different sentence?

    This really does not make any sense logically, and the 90 day stay at Chino should have been the entire sentence.

    If Judge Rittenband in 1977 intended to commit to another & different sentence, after psychiatrically evaluating Roman Polanski a second time for 90 days this would be the same as giving Roman Polanski two sentences.

    The second sentence would also be dependent on the first sentence’s outcome, which as it turned out in Polanski’s case was excellent, he was released early. But even so that did not make any difference to the Santa Monica Judge Rittenband who said the prison report was a whitewash.

    Then the same Santa Monica Judge wanted to illegally take away Roman Polanski’s right to fight deportation through coercion in the Judge’s second sentencing of him that was due to take place on Feb 1st 1978.

    The most important thing here is that the Santa Monica Judge ordering on Sept 19th 1977 that Polanski must go to Chino prison for a second psychiatric evaluation, is diametrically opposed to the Judge’s first ruling at the same hearing that Polanski was not a mentally disordered sex offender.

    Because if the Judge found that Polanski was not a mentally disordered sex offender then no further 90 day psychiatric evaluation was needed at Chino Prison.

    Maybe the original Santa Monica Judge needed an evaluation himself since the two rulings he made at the same time are more than at odds with each other, they are incompatible.

    For the Judge’s two conflicting decisions from Sept 19th, 1977 See Page 36 and Page 48 of the Los Angeles prosecutors filings at:

    http://www.scribd.com/full/31058289?access_key=key-16f2o46e5jxoisgvf6lz

    and the Spokesman Review from Sept 1977 See:

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JNURAAAAIBAJ&sjid=He4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6879,1950498&hl=en

  • YERMOM

    any way we can get a list of those assholes that signed this so that we can never watch another one of their pro child toucher movies.

    • http://eartlink@net nomee1

      he raped a 14 year old girl was convicted and then fled the country, he needs, at the very least to come back and serve his time, with BIG BUBBA AND THE GANG :gun:

  • Maddy

    In Roman Polanski’s 1977 criminal case Santa Monica Judge Laurence J. Rittenband used California Penal Code Section 1203.03 as Polanski’s sentence even though it was not designed to be a sentence.

    In Aug 1977 when the original Los Angeles prosecutor Roger Gunson told the Judge that Penal Code # 1203.03 was not designed to be a sentence the Santa Monica Judge replied: “I’m going to do it anyhow.”

    And when Los Angeles Prosecutor Gunson asked his Los Angeles prosecutor Superiors, one of whom now is a 9th Circuit Judge, to remove the Santa Monica Judge Rittenband from Roman Polanski’s case for misconduct, his County of Los Angeles Prosecutor superiors stopped him from doing so.

    Later on Sept 19th 1977 there was a fake hearing at the Santa Monica Courthouse where the Judge and all parties knew the outcome in advance, but not the public or the press.

    Then after Polanski served his Penal Code 1203.03 sentence and was release early from Chino prison with the recommendation of no further prison time, the Santa Monica Judge unfairly wanted to sentence Polanski again to a second sentence, even though there was just one crime.

    In another case which involved police cover up of a sexual assault case at the same Santa Monica Courthouse in 1998, the Santa Monica Judge used the California Government Code Requirement 910 to hold a fake hearing where the victim of sexual molestation and police cover up of it could not prevail because of that California Government 910 Statute. So why did the Judge hold this staged hearing anyway?

    The Santa Monica Judge at this STAGED HEARING, also allowed the defendant police officer to control the hearing by hiding the California Government 910 statute requirement, and also permitted undocumented police to be stationed in and around the courtroom, who later assaulted and battered and falsely arrest her in retaliation for reporting police cover up of her sexual assault complaint against an instructor at one of California’s Colleges.

    Another purpose of the fake hearing at a California Courthouse was to launder College Officials & police non-testimonial activities, their prior crimes against the female who had been sexually molested by a California Instructor on the College campus, and to win judgment plus intimidate and deter her forcefully – from going any further.

    As there have been at least TWO STAGED HEARINGS at the Santa Monica Courthouse, where the Santa Monica Judges use the California Statutes to violate the People’s civil rights with impunity when there is no integrity or due process of law, equal protections of the laws, and where the California Statutes are used for a purposes not intended on their face.

    In addition the Federal Courts are aiding and abetting guaranteeing that people’s civil rights will continue to be violated with impunity in California, using such decisions as Pony v. County of Los Angeles to terminate civil rights cases in California, which conflicts with U.S. Constitutional law.

    See Link below:

    http://openjurist.org/433/f3d/1138/pony-v-county-of-los-angeles

    Note: Pony v. County of Los Angeles 433 F3d 1138 (9th Circ. January 11th 2006) was written by Judge Jay S. Bybee who became a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge after ratifying the TORTURE MEMOS for the Bush Administration.

    Coincidentally A similar character appeared in the movie The Ghost Writer, where a Ghost Writer had disappeared & died on January 11th or 12th

    Because California Statutes are being used in a discriminatory manner with no appeals possible in California Courts, and no due process of law,

    Because Roman Polanski has served his time by serving Penal Code Sentence 1203.03 which was not appealable, and was not designed to be a sentence,

    Because Roman Polanski should not have to serve two sentences for one crime.

    Because California Authorities and Statutes are not to be trusted in how they are being applied at the Santa Monica Courthouse in sexual assault cases,

    Because in Roman Polanski’s 1977 Santa Monica Case there was illegal Judicial & Prosecutorial corruption against Roman Polanski

    Because the District Attorney’s Office has used incomplete and false information to request that the Swiss Government extradite Roman Polanski to California, since he served the sentence agreed upon in the plea bargain agreement.

    Because the District Attorney’s Office has not wanted to add another sentence for Polanski leaving California in 1977 :roll: which is telling

    Because 77 year old Roman Polanski is no threat to anyone.

    Because Roman Polanski either has 48 days or no days left to serve in California – which is not 6 months, and thus does not fit Switzerland’s extradition procedure which must be 6 months or more.

    For all the above reasons Roman Polanski should be released as soon as possible by the Swiss Authorities, NOT TORTURED ANY LONGER so he can go home to France to his wife, family and friends.