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Criminal

Dec. 23, 2009

Court Rejects Polanski's Appeal

A Superior Court judge was right to deny Roman Polanski a hearing on alleged misconduct by the judge and prosecutors in his 30-year-old rape case because he did not appear in court while a fugitive, an appellate court ruled Monday.

By Greg Katz

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge was right to deny Roman Polanski a hearing on alleged misconduct by the judge and prosecutors in his 30-year-old rape case because he did not appear in court while a fugitive, an appellate court ruled Monday.

But, far from looking askance at Polanski's claims that, in the 1970s, the judge and prosecutors illegally colluded out of court, the 2nd Dis...

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