New York Post

Polanski victim in court for him

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Roman Polanski won’t risk a return to a US court to resolve his sexual-assault case, so his victim is going to stand up for him.

Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time of the crime, is going to appeal directly to an LA judge Friday to end the long-running case, the fugitive director’s lawyer said.

Geimer, 54, has long supported efforts to end the legal saga that led to Polanski fleeing the US, but Friday will be the first time she’s appeared in LA Superior Court on his behalf, attorney Harland Braun said.

“She’s tired of this case,” Braun said. “The judge is just playing games with him.”

The Oscar winner has been a fugitive since he fled to France in 1978 on the eve of sentencing for having unlawful sex with a minor. Prosecutor­s dropped charges he drugged, raped and sodomized the girl.

Polanski, 83, feared the judge was going to renege on a plea agreement and send him away for more time than the six weeks he served in prison during a psychiatri­c evaluation prior to sentencing.

His lawyers have been fighting for years to end the case and lift an internatio­nal arrest warrant that confined him to France, Switzerlan­d and Poland.

The warrant prevented Polanski from collecting his Oscar for Best Director for 2002’s “The Pianist.”

He was also nominated for 1974’s “Chinatown” and 1979’s “Tess.”

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