{"id":542154,"date":"2010-04-23T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101882"},"modified":"2010-04-23T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:05:21","slug":"roman-polanski-seeks-pardon-from-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542154","title":{"rendered":"Roman Polanski Seeks Pardon From President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/barackobamapotrait1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"barackobamapotrait1\" width=\"230\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37279\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/romanpolanski.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"romanpolanski\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-74186\" \/><br \/> <em>This mofo&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oscar-winning child predator Roman Polanski has enlisted the help of the world&#8217;s most powerful man in a last ditch effort to battle extradition on his 33-year-old stautory rape charge: He&#8217;s written a letter to President Barack Obama, according to French tabloid <em>L&#8217;Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How dare he drag Barry into this! <span id=\"more-101882\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Chinatown<\/em> director is currently under house arrest in Switzerland as prosecutors in California attempt to force him back to the United States (rightfully so, might I add) to face sentencing for drugging and raping a 13-year-old aspiring model in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Several high-profile Hollywood figures have already spoken out in support of Polanski, now he&#8217;s hoping the US president will keep him out of jail. According to <em>L&#8217;Express<\/em>, President Nicolas Sarkozy &#8211; who is backing Polanski&#8217;s bid for freedom &#8211; <em>&#8220;played the postman&#8221;<\/em> and delivered Polanski&#8217;s handwritten note to Obama earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In an astonishing act of backroom diplomacy, Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivered a letter from Roman Polanski to Barack Obama last week on the sidelines of the anti-nuclear proliferation summit in Washington.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Polanski fled to France in 1978 after pleading guilty to a charge of unlawful sex with a minor. He was arrested by Swiss officials last September after arriving in the country to attend a film festival in Zurich. This week, a California judge torpedoed an effort by the victim, now a mother in her forties, to have the case thrown out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/weswSL01Ky1r7MFw2-p-Y10NIUA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/weswSL01Ky1r7MFw2-p-Y10NIUA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/weswSL01Ky1r7MFw2-p-Y10NIUA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/weswSL01Ky1r7MFw2-p-Y10NIUA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mofo&#8230;. Oscar-winning child predator Roman Polanski has enlisted the help of the world&#8217;s most powerful man in a last ditch effort to battle extradition on his 33-year-old stautory rape charge: He&#8217;s written a letter to President Barack Obama, according to French tabloid L&#8217;Express. How dare he drag Barry into this! The Chinatown director is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}