News Source: News 24
| about 1 month ago
Film director Roman Polanski, now in Swiss detention, may decide to face justice in the United States, where he is wanted on a 1977 sex charge, to avoid lengthy extradition procedures, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday. The Oscar-winning director...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
The Associated Press Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 12:00 AM -- Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2009. There are 71 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 21, 1959, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by...
News Source: Contra Costa Times
| about 1 month ago
Polanski offered to post bail, subject himself to house arrest and electronic monitoring, and even offered to put his Swiss chalet in the luxury resort of Gstaad up as collateral. But all offers were rejected by the tribunal as insufficient to ensure...
News Source: The Mercury News
| about 1 month ago
Roman Polanski's three decades as a fugitive are coming back to haunt him. Noting his previous escape from U.S. authorities, Switzerland's top criminal court today rejected Polanski's appeal to be released from prison because of the "high" risk that...
News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 month ago
Switzerland's top criminal court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski saying that the risk of his fleeing the country, pending extradition to the US, was "high". The 76-year-old director who is wanted in...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Academy Award-winning director continues to fight imprisonment. Source: AP A Swiss judge denied director Roman Polanski's appeal to post bail or to go under house arrest. Not surprisingly, the ruling came as a result of Polanski being seen as a "...