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"Polanski lawyers appeal, demand sentencing in absence"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the headline of this Reuters piece reporting the latest news in the Roman Polanski legal saga.  Here are excerpts from the piece: Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed an appeal on Thursday demanding the fugitive film director be sentenced in California for a decades-old sex crime even as he remains under house arrest in Switzerland.  They said Polanski was entitled under California law to be sentenced without returning in person to Los Angeles on a charge of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.... A Los Angeles judge in January rejected Polanski's request to be sentenced in absentia, and insisted he appear in court. Polanski's lawyers have been fighting to have the unlawful sex case dropped, alleging judicial misconduct in the original legal proceedings when the judge considered sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).

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