Reply #69: The actual testimony from the plea hearing refutes your post.

[msanthrope]

The linked pages, 7, 8, and 9, detail that Polanski knew, and agreed, that the psychiatric eval was prior to sentencing. In fact, he testfied that he knew that he was facing 15-20 years....

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea7.html

If the CA government was in violation of the law, kindly cite it. I mean, the actual law they were breaking. In fact, can you cite the sentencing hearing that only gave him 42 days????

You can't, because it doesn't exist.

Look, Polanski did what criminals do--they run when they are facing real jail time.