“On February 26 last, Roger Gunson, the deputy district attorney in charge of the case in 1977, now retired, testified under oath before Judge Mary Lou Villar in the presence of David Walgren, the present deputy district attorney in charge of the case, who was at liberty to contradict and question him, that on September 16, 1977, Judge Rittenband stated to all the parties concerned that my term of imprisonment in Chino constituted the totality of the sentence I would have to serve.” Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist I can remain silent no longer (2010) Question
“33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. That period was to have covered the totality of my sentence. By the time I left prison, the judge had changed his mind and claimed that the time served at Chino did not fulfil the entire sentence, and it is this reversal that justified my leaving the United States.” Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist I can remain silent no longer (2010) Law , Change , Time
“Gunson added that it was false to claim, as the present district attorney’s office does in their request for my extradition, that the time I spent in Chino was for the purpose of a diagnostic study.” Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist I can remain silent no longer (2010) Study , Time , Falseness