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Appeals Court Delays Director Roman Polanski?s Hearing on Whether to Dismiss 1978 Child Rape Case Against Him

By Altman & Altman

An appeals court has issued a stay on proceedings to determine whether to dismiss Academy Award-winning film director Roman Polanski?s bid to have a 31-year-old sex with a minor case dismissed. The 75-year-old filmmaker?s criminal defense team claims there is new, uncontested evidence of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct that deprived the 75-year-old filmmaker of his statutory and constitutional rights. The exiled movie directed pleaded guilty in 1978 to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old female at the house of Academy Award winning movie star Jack Nicholson. Polanski was sentenced to 3-months at a psychiatric center. After about a month and a half at the facility, he was released. When it appeared that he would receive additional sentencing, Polanski left the United States and hasn?t returned since...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).