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Please we all know where we can discuss this issue forever (MetaFilter)please plase? pls? pluz?
apparently the legal idea is that violent crimes are not just crimes against persons, but crimes against the state. So it's the state, not the victim, prosecuting.
Not that I'm going to rush out and go rah-rah for Polanski's art.
1. The halo effect. It’s common to believe that someone who is good in one regard is good in all. So the belief that Polanski is a good film-maker leads people to think he is a good man...
The detailed report I heard discussed this dilemma, and apparently the legal idea is that violent crimes are not just crimes against persons, but crimes against the state. So it's the state, not the victim, prosecuting.
May I suggest a generic tag that acts like SPOILERS so that Recent Comments to trigger threads like this are blanked out?
...the legal idea is that violent crimes are not just crimes against persons, but crimes against the state. So it's the state, not the victim, prosecuting.
Why the hell did he go to Switzerland?
I guess I like the unintered wildness of this place.
He'd been to Switzerland numerous times over the years.
If you want to argue that *every* criminal who has a traumatic past deserves a free 30 years in France rather than a prison sentence, fine.