Whatever the motives of the DA's office, then and now; the closure his victim might gain from seeing her rapist convicted and punished is being denied to her by one man - Polanski.

The time he served was 42 days and was officially a "psychiatric evaluation." He was never formally sentenced, he fled first. He was expecting to be sentenced to probation and time served, but once he got wind that he might actually be sentenced to prison, he ran like a coward. Is that the "self-preservation" you…