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"Roman Polanski Rep Says Justice Has Already Been Served"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new ABC News piece concerning a famous old child sex case that has become new again thanks to the famously neutral Swiss.  Here is how this piece starts: As director Roman Polanski remains in a Swiss jail and the debate about his arrest rages on, his Hollywood representative says attorneys are preparing a motion for his release. "The entire narrative surrounding this situation over the last 32 years has been wrought with complications and inconsistencies," Jeff Berg told "Good Morning America" today. Polanski's arrest Saturday at the Zurich airport came at the request of a U.S. warrant on a 31-year-old statutory rape charge. Berg and Polanski's lawyers have expressed shock that he was taken into custody in a country he is known to frequent, even owning a chalet there...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).