Polanski will not be extradited to the US

Story HERE.

Roman Polanski Dismissal Denied

Roman Polanski lost a battle Tuesday in his effort to get a 1977 child sex case against him thrown out, but in delivering the bad news, a judge suggested the acclaimed director may be a plane ticket away from winning the larger war.
The Los Angeles Superior Court Judge told a packed courtroom that he found the core argument in Polanski's request for a dismissal of charges -- allegations of unethical and, in some instances, illegal conduct by a prosecutor and a judge three decades ago -- to be credible.
But, the judge said, Polanski's fugitive status left him no choice but to deny the request.
In spite of Polanski's pledge not to come back, his legal team seemed to be mulling the possibility of a return.
Los Angeles Times report HERE

Polanski Pleads his Case

Thirty years after he became a fugitive to avoid a prison sentence for having sex with a teenager, Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss the case.
In the motion filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, lawyers for Polanski alleged "repeated, unlawful and unethical misconduct" by a prosecutor and the trial judge and requested that the charge which prompted him to flee the country be dropped "in the interests of justice."
The request to dismiss the charge, which took court officials and prosecutors by surprise, is based on revelations in a documentary broadcast in June on HBO. The film, "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," portrayed the legal proceeding as hopelessly tainted by backroom dealings between a vindictive judge and a deputy district attorney meddling in his colleagues' case.
Los Angeles Times report HERE

Happy Birthday Mr. Redford...as well as...

Also born on this date...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (38), Edward Norton (39), Christian Slater (39), Denis Leary (51), Patrick Swayze (56), Martin Mull (65), Roman Polanski (75)

...that's a lot of talent hatched on a single date...