Blame To Go Around

This story would seem to confirm the arguments made by Glenn and some other commenters that the authorities in California bear some of the blame for the failure to extradite Polanski. Like some other commenters, I’m inclined to think that the Swiss argument was a conclusion in search of a pretext, so it’s not clear that this bungling mattered. But that is just a guess, so the blame for the failure to extradite can’t rest entirely on Swiss shoulders.