Have you considered the possibility Geimer and her family didn't want to pursue a trial was due to being victimized by Polanski first and the L.A. County District Attorney second.
How is that?
By becoming the subject of manipulation tactics from the D.A. to coach Geimer's testimony.
Polanski did have sex with her and it…

There may be a worthy principle to uphold by preventing any undeserved benefit to Polanski due to releasing the deposition transcript.
However, there is an infinitely greater virtue to extol and a potential benefit long overdue to so many by unsealing this testimony that it should absolutely override the District…

"a deputy district attorney who later recanted the statements he made in that documentary"
The recanting was not believable.
Its likely that he came under great pressure to recant - because the implications of his statements extend far beyond the Polanski case.
The judicial and prosecutorial misconduct by the L.A.…