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**Ken Fortenberry** · September 30th, 2009, 05:07 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
And as an aisde, if I were Polanski, or especially his attorney(s), I'd damned
sure not Woody Allen as a character reference. My guess is that a lot of folks
are gonna wish that someone had listened to the victim in all of this...

My guess is Polanski will never be extradited. Los Angeles
Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza has already ruled that
"substantial misconduct" occurred in the trial when the judge
arranged a plea agreement and then planned to renege on it.
The only reason he didn't throw the whole thing out was because
Polanski failed to show up in person. Polanski's lawyers were
in the process of appealing that when he was arrested.

Polanski will have to stay in Switzerland for awhile, the
extradition will fizzle and that will be that. Apparently
the state of California won't throw the case out unless
Polanski shows up in person and there's not an ice cubes
chance in hell Polanski ever does that, so back to status quo.

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Ken Fortenberry