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In 1977, Roman Polanski was charged with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under fourteen, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. Polanski accepted a plea bargain where he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of Unlawful sex with a minor and he was sent to a psychiatric evaluation. He was promised that he was going to get probation, but he found out that the judge was planning on sending him to prison, so as a result, he fled to France and he has been there ever since. What if Polanski had not pleaded guilty and the case had gone to trial?
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