Blanchett: Social Media Is “Not the Judge& Jury” of W. Allen

Surely many will do their best to take Blanchett to task for this, but she's right. Social media is great for creating awareness of an issue, but it's up to the legal system to investigate and properly do due diligence in cases such as these. Unfortunately, the second that an accusation is thrown into the ether, it is automatically treated as a condemnation and conviction.

Social media is annoying. A bunch of people playing moral police when they know good and well they need to be checked also.

She's full of shit.

Like she didn't know. She's no better than Natalie Portman signing a petition to bring back Roman Polanski and then bitching on about this MeToo movement.

Nothing Blanchett said sounds odd to me really - not that she didn't about Dylan's renewed allegations - a lot of people weren't paying attention to those pre-#Metoo and the rest is exactly logical and precise - not support exactly but not hypocritical or cowardly (Portman somewhat, Gerwig and Chalamet moreso).

I don't think there's anything wrong with signing the Polanski petition either btw, there's no hypocrisy there at all, you can support his guilt and not support jail time, and that petition supported his not being extradited which was an entirely different thing anyway

The argument isn't whether or not Polanski deserves jail time for his crime. He actually did spend time in jail for it. The issue stems from the plea agreement that everyone accepted at the time, which stipulated that five of the six charges of criminal behavior against Polanski would be dropped and that in exchange, he would plead guilty to the charge of "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor" and serve three months at Chino undergoing psychiatric evaluation, and that he would get out after 42 days and be under probation after the fact. However, after Polanski served this sentence, the judge decided to renege on the plea deal and sentence Polanski to a hard prison sentence.

You can make the argument that the first deal should never have been struck and that Polanski deserved to be imprisoned for a long time. The problem is, however, that legally, the deal was agreed upon by all parties and that after the fact, the judge overstepped his legal boundaries, and that's extremely problematic from the judicial angle, because our entire system of law is predicated on everyone's right to a fair shake by the law, and that if a deal is made that all parties are amenable to, you can't simply "take it back", especially once the party in question has already done the agreed-upon sentence. That is the root of the debate and why people signed the petition, not that they were trying to exonerate Polanski of what he had done. Nobody's arguing that he should be forgiven.

I am not saying he didn't deserve jail time, I am saying that anyone who was convicted of his crime with no previous criminal record didn't get jail time from 1975-1977 in LA County (1 count is what he faced only Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a minor) and the court psychiatrists weren't pursuing jail time either.

Now I understand the judge can veto that deal he had in place, I am not saying he didn't deserve more or less I am just saying that's not what the petition was about.

Again, the Swiss weren't commenting on his guilt in the rape they were addressing the legality of them being responsible to send him back to the US.

The three months under psychiatric evaluation was the sentence, plus whatever probation was part of it. Regardless of whether or not he considered himself guilty, that was the sentence and it was (or should have been) legally binding. It doesn't make it right in a moral sense, but when you start going down that road, the only satisfactory sentences to the masses would be "an eye for an eye."

How can you prove that, though?

Also, Polanski actually pled guilty to the sexual assault (as par of the plea agreement), so he in essence confessed to doing it.

Again, how can you prove that? Legally, in America, a confession of guilt is sufficient when submitting to a plea bargain.

She's not wrong. I wish more people would respond like this, instead of bowing to peer pressure.

Good for her. About time a public figure who worked with him said something like this out loud.