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Swiss justice ministry formally refuses US extradition request for Roman Polanski

By Douglas A. Berman

I happen to be off-line for most of the day, and the Swiss let an (in)famous sex offender go free.  This article from The Guardian, which is headlined "Roman Polanski escapes extradition to US: Film director goes free after nine months under house arrest in Switzerland," provides the basic details: Roman Polanski, the film director who has been under house arrest in Switzerland for the past nine months, has been declared a free man after officials decided not to extradite him to the United States. The Swiss justice ministry said it had decided against handing the fugitive director to the US, where he is wanted for sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl 33 years ago. "The Swiss justice ministry will not extradite Roman Polanski to the United States," Eveline Widner-Schlumpf, a ministry official said at a press conference in Bern...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).