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California Court Denies Petition Filed by Roman Polanski’s Victim
The California Second District Court of Appeal denied a petition on April 22 filed by Samantha Geimer, the victim in Roman Polanski’s sex case, FOX News has reported. The court declined to comment on the denial of the petition, which was filed on March 23 to dismiss the case.
Geimer’s attorney, Lawrence Silver, argued that the 2008 changes in the state’s constitution gives her more rights as a victim to influence the case, saying “She is a person who is harmed by the maintenance of the prosecution and she wants it to end. She has not been treated fairly.”
In response, prosecutors said that the change doesn’t grant Geimer or other crime victims the right to end prosecutions. The ruling is unlikely to change anything on the Academy Award-winning director’s status, at least immediately. Presently, he is under house arrest in the Swiss resort of Gstaad.
American authorities are still seeking to extradite Polanski from Switzerland so that he can be sentenced for the one count of unlawful sexual intercourse he pled guilty to in 1978. However, his attorneys are hoping the plea will be overturned all together, as they claim there was serious misconduct by the original judge in the case.
Written by: Karen Benardello
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