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Famous Director Fighting Rape Charge

By Steven Rodriguez

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Three decades ago, Oscar winning director Roman Polanski was charged with statutory rape, accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. The sex crimes case, one of Hollywood’s most notorious and titillating ever, spawned a generation of tabloid media and accusations of perverse justice. Polanski fled the country, moving to Europe, and has not entered American soil since. Polanski has since filed a request through his Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer asking that prosecutors drop statutory rape charges filed against him in 1978 for having sex with a minor. The attorneys said they have new evidence that Polanski, 75, was a victim of prosecutorial misconduct in the three-decade-old case, in which he admitted at the time to “unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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