Court rules sex charges to remain
A LOS Angeles County Superior Court judge has rejected an effort by famed director Roman Polanski to dismiss all sexual assault charges against him in a threedecade-old case that spurred him to flee to Europe to avoid sentencing.
A court spokesman confirmed yesterday to the Los Angeles Times the court’s denial of the bid.
Last week, Polanski’s legal team – which now includes celebrity attorney Alan M Dershowitz – made accusations of prosecutorial misconduct in its effort to end the case. The charges have kept the director out of the United States as well as many countries that have extradition treaties with the US.
Polanski, now 81, was aiming to finally wrap up the legal drama that has kept him an exile from the United States since 1978.