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Polanski fled the US after spending 42 days in prison for psychiatric tests and has never been sentenced. In the December hearing, Polanski's lawyers are to appeal a Superior Court decision from May, which rejected Polanski's request to close the case...
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The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite Roman Polanski, according to a statement by the Swiss Justice Office on Friday. The Swiss authorities said they received the formal extradition request on Thursday evening. The Franco-Polish...
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The AP news agency said e-mails show that the Swiss authorities tipped off their US counterparts that Polanski, 76, was preparing to travel to Zurich. The filmmaker was held as he travelled from France to collect an award. He has been wanted in the US...
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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 Frank...
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Swiss court rejects Polanski bid for release A Swiss court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by film director Roman Polanski against detention pending extradition to the United States for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. "According...
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Director Roman Polanski is continuing to work on his film �The Ghost� from his jail cell in Switzerland and expects to deliver it on time before the end of the year. �The film will be finished,� said Henning Molfenter, head of production at Studio Babelsberg...
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Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday. "I found him to be tired and depressed,"...
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Roman Polanski lost the first round yesterday in his battle to avoid extradition to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Already locked in a Zurich cell for the last dozen days, Polanski learned that he will remain incarcerated for...
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Roman Polanski will stay behind bars for now after Swiss justice authorities on Tuesday rejected his first appeal to be released from jail. Folco Galli, Justice Office spokesman, said no formal request had yet been received for the filmmaker to be sent...
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Marina Zenovich, the director of Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, warns that nobody has anything to gain from the detention of the 76-year-old French-Polish director. Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the Zurich Film Festival, Zenovich...
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