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They would call it "due process." As an American, you're welcome to find that contemptible, if you like. But either way, I don't think the Europeans would parti
by kafkaesq 11y ago
They would call it "due process." As an American, you're welcome to find that contemptible, if you like. But either way, I don't think the Europeans would particularly care.
- tptacek 11y agoHe was convicted of a heinous, drug-assisted rape of a child, one he surely committed (he does not contest the victim's story). He's had his due process. What he doesn't like is the outcome.
- kafkaesq 11y agoHe was convicted of the drug-assisted rape of a child ... No, he was charged with "drug-assisted rape", but not convicted. In fact, he wasn't "convicted" of anything; as part of a deal with the judge, he plead guilty to a related, but different charge ("unlawful intercourse with a minor"). But that's OK. Go on living in this emotionally-driven, fact- and reality-divorced haze if you want to...
- tptacek 11y agoDrug-assisted rape, unlawful intercourse with a minor, potato, po-tah-to, let's call this whole part of the thread off.
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- kafkaesq 11y agoDrug-assisted rape, unlawful intercourse with a minor So now you're basically implying that I was using that phrase to somehow obfuscate or water down what Polanski actually did. That goes beyond any disagreement -- that's just slimy.
- LordKano 11y agoA guilty plea counts as a conviction.
- kafkaesq 11y agoIt "counts" the same for sentencing purposes, but they're still different things (and the distinction does matter). For example, a conviction can be appealed but a guilty plea cannot.