Had to leave the US ....... insane judge wanted to give him 50 years in prison

Polanski pleaded guilty to the charge of "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor",[145][146] and was ordered to undergo 90 days of psychiatric evaluation at California Institution for Men at Chino.[147] Upon release from prison after 42 days, Polanski agreed to the plea bargain, his penalty to be time served along with probation. However, he learned afterward that the judge, Laurence J. Rittenband, had told some friends that he was going to disregard the plea bargain and sentence Polanski to 50 years in prison:[146][148] "I'll see this man never gets out of jail," he told Polanski's friend, screenwriter Howard E. Koch.[149] Gailey's attorney confirmed the judge changed his mind after he met the judge in his chambers:

He was going to sentence Polanski, rather than to time served, to fifty years. What the judge did was outrageous. We had agreed to a plea bargain and the judge had approved it.[149][150]



During a television interview on 10 March 2011, Geimer blamed the media, reporters, the court, and the judge for having caused "way more damage to me and my family than anything Roman Polanski has ever done", and opined that the judge was using her and Polanski for the media exposure.[168]