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Roman Polanski victim: Director is not a threat, prosecution should end

Samantha Geimer, who as a 13-year-old girl was at the center of the Roman Polanski sex case, called on prosecutors to halt the case against the famed director.

 

Cash bail offer to be filed for Polanski on Monday

Cash bail offer to be filed for Polanski on Monday

A French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland, says a new bail offer will be filed Monday and it will ...

 

Swiss defend Polanski tipoff to US

Swiss officials tipped off the United States and set in motion the arrest of director Roman Polanski last month in his decades-old child sex case, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. On Wednesday, a top Swiss official defended the move....

 

France, Poland want Polanski released on bail

France, Poland want Polanski released on bail

The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated today as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail and pressed U.S. officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case.

 

Polanski to fight extradition after Zurich arrest

ZURICH (Reuters) - Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Zurich over a U.S.

 

Director Roman Polanski arrested in '70s sex case

Director Roman Polanski arrested in '70s sex case

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said today. The Academy Award-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced.

 

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