 | The plea bargain is the moment when the case pivoted from the story of what Polanski did to Samantha Gailey to the story of what the system did to him. Polanski’s detractors focus on the first, his supporters on the second, but the two are interwined, and both were shaped by the influence of Polanski celebrity. |
Excellent article on the subject : Toobin makes an explicite effort to restrain himself to the presentation of hard (legal) facts.
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer to The New Yorker. He is also “the author of five books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, which won the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize” (TNY). Check his official website.
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