Director Polanski feels depressed in jail; Lawyer worried ab

[joeblow]

Director Polanski feels depressed in jail; Lawyer worried about state of mind...

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wir ... id=8802331

ZURICH (Reuters) - Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.

"I found him to be tired and depressed," Herve Temime told the Sonntag newspaper, one of two newspapers he talked to after visiting the Oscar-winning director in a Zurich prison.

"Roman Polanski, who is 76, seemed very dejected when I visited him," Temime told another newspaper, NZZ am Sonntag.

"Polanski was in an unsettled state of mind."

Polanski pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 and spent 42 days in prison undergoing psychiatric tests.

However, he fled before the case was concluded because he believed a judge would sentence him to up to 50 years behind bars despite a plea agreement for time already served.

Swiss authorities rejected an appeal on Tuesday to release Polanski and also urged a Swiss court dealing with his extradition warrant to reject another appeal by Polanski's lawyers to have him freed, and to refuse bail.

Swiss officials have said they believe there is a very high risk of Polanski fleeing if he is released on bail.

Temime told the Sonntag newspaper the Swiss Federal Penal Court should decide "very soon" on his bid for release on bail.

"He would fulfill all the conditions and stay in Switzerland until the extradition proceeding are decided," he said.

The director, who holds dual French and Polish citizenship, was arrested at the request of the United States when he flew into Switzerland on September 26 to receive a life-time achievement prize at a film festival.

(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; editing by Michael Roddy)

[Rockclimber]

You shouldn't have RAPE RAPED a little girl Roman. May justice be served--give him life in prison, whats left of it anyway.

[jai_mann]

I love how the news report describes it as "having sex" instead of forced rape, sodomy, and drugging of a minor. Technically they're only repeating what the plea agreement changed the charges to, but that doesn't reflect reality.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Polanski should be placed in a US prison with a large group of hardcore life-prisoners. Some Bubba will set him straight on the Jewish definitions of what is "having sex" and "RAPE".   It would be only just in this sick Jew Media world.

[MikeWB]

From what I've read about prisons, child rapists and pedophiles are the lowest of the low in prison and are regularly beaten and sodomized. Polanski will have "fun" time in Cali prisons! Scum like him deserve it.

[Ognir]

Don't count your chickens too soon Mike,  add in some Jewish lawyers, Jewish Judge ...




http://www.romanpolanski.ch/

[brandon dean]

great compilation from news from the west:

Liberal hollywood stands by rapist roman polanski

http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/200 ... slays.html

my question is: what coming event is this distracting people from?

liberals all over the world are defending this piece of trash.

His biographer says he was sipping champagne. passing a joint around when he heard his wife and baby were stabbed to death in a satanic ritual by the Manson cult. Poor Polanski flew back to pose by the door of his death house for Life magazine a week after the slaughter for which he charged Live $5000. for the privilege.

Since Roman used girls in their marriage bed, the spousal relationship was, well, tense. Roman sold pictures of his naked wife to Playboy to tantalize millions of lusting men (was Manson one of the millions?). When she was pregnant, Polanski humiliated Tate in public, calling her "a dumb hag" and similar endearments.

oh the artists are never understood!