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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by tptacek on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:18PM (#11037300)
I don't think there's any productive discussion to have about the Polanski case, but if you're referring to the most recent hearing (I've linked to it below), I think it's contemptible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/world/europe/roman-polansk...

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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by kafkaesq on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:44PM (#11037502)
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.
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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by tptacek on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:48PM (#11037535)
He 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.
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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by kafkaesq on Thursday February 04, 2016 @05:03PM (#11037665)
He 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...

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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by tptacek on Thursday February 04, 2016 @05:12PM (#11037718)
Drug-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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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by kafkaesq on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:16PM (#11038949)
Drug-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.

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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by LordKano on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:08PM (#11044637)
A guilty plea counts as a conviction.
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Re:UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour' by kafkaesq on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:25PM (#11044754)
It "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.

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