And if you read what I wrote, I never said what I thought would happen to him, just that the majority of the population in this country isn't exactly as outraged at this arrest as you might think they are.

I, personally, don't think anything is going to come out of this case. Even if he does get sent back to America, I doubt that this will ammount to anything more than a fine – people are right in saying that there were legal issues in how this was handled 30 years ago, and based on that it will most likely be dismissed.

I have no problem with anyone pointing out the legal issues and expecting a favorable outcome on his behalf based on that.
What I do have a problem is: 1 – people trying to whitewash what he actually did, either out of misinformation, simple, good old victim blaming, or using the argument that he is "such a great artist" and 2 – people trying to turn him into some sort of victim, a poor little man trying to escape "the US morality police". C'mon now.

And to clarify a few things I read in here before: a. Yes, he was charged with rape (not just statutory rape either, as the Polanski apologists and revisionsts are trying to make this out to be) – but he pled guilty to a lesser charge based on a deal made with the prosecution and b. While those 42 days spent in psychiatric evaluation were indeed supposed to count towards his full sentence according to his deal, he hadn't actually been formally sentenced yet.

Like I said before, I have no problem with people who expect him to go free due to the legal issues once due proccess is done (which is what I think will happen, if not sooner), but why would anyone be surprised, let alone outraged, by the fact that he actually has to face those issues in a court of law like anyone else would have to, no matter how long it has been?

Do you have a link for that poll? Because i've been searching twenty minutes for it and have not found any such poll. Was it an online poll? If so, that's completely worthless.

The only thing I found was an article in Le Figaro called, "What ever happened to Swiss neutrality?" Yves Thread, a writer for the French paper, writes about vast "Euro-American cultural divide" and then spends the remainder of the article writing about the outrage this has caused in France and Poland.

Face it, he won't do any real time.

What you don't understand or acknowledge is that Roman Polanski is NOT AN AMERICAN! He isn't an American living in exile in Europe for his past misdeeds. He was born in France and raised in Poland. He is a dual French-Pole citizen. He is European. If you honestly believe that any European court will send A EUROPEAN CITIZEN (born and raised) into a kangeroo court over a 30+ year indiscretion because the US morality police (to use Yves Thread's phrase) want him to face charges here, than you must be smoking something.

They're sending him back to France.

The court has announced that it will rule in a "few weeks." Expect Polanski to be freed around then.

However, I'm not 100% convinced of his convictions that the Swiss courts will release him at least not immediately. I mean, it's likely they will, but yes, I doubt he will ever see even an afternoon of U.S. jailtime, unless he's willing to concede to coming to the U.S. to clear up matters.

But it's already gotten ugly enough between his attorneys and the L.A. District dept so that's probably not going to happen.

But he's exactly right about how the way it's playing over there.

Essentially, this has been one of the only pragmatic and knowing comments posted in the Polanski threads so far.

People, there are FUCKING PRESIDENTS and FOREIGN MINISTERS defending Polanski in France.

These people are public officials as well. They are held accountable by their own people, not by FOX NEWS. Being the lap dog for American "justice" does not play well at all in Europe.

The high court in Switzerland will review the case and ultimately determine some fault with the charges against Polanski and/or the extradition request itself and he'll be sent back to France.

You people are fooling yourselves if you think Polanski will ever be sent back to the US, much less serve any real time in prison.

He may never leave France again though, for what it's worth.

Things are looking up for him.