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: Legal Pad | LAHearing scheduled in Roman Polanski sex case
By Jonathan Hayter
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A hearing for Roman Polanski's bid to have a 31-year-old sex case dismissed has been rescheduled for Feb. 17. The date was announced Tuesday, a day after Polanski's lawyer lost a bid to disqualify all Los Angeles Superior Court judges from considering the long dormant case against the director.
Polanski's attorney, Chad Hummel, claimed the entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench is biased against the director. The California 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the motion to disqualify the judges. It also lifted a stay that had halted court proceedings in the case.
Polanski, 75, pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles in 1978 but fled to France before he could be sentenced. The motion to dismiss the case cites new information from an HBO documentary, "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," that documents actions of the now deceased trial judge that defense lawyers deemed inappropriate.
-- Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).
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