LOS ANGELES — An appeals court ruled Wednesday that transcripts related to Roman Polanski's criminal case must be made public, a decision that could bring an end to a legal saga the acclaimed film director set in motion when he fled the U.S. after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a child in 1977.
One day after the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said it was no longer opposed unsealing the records, the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a three-page ruling accepting "the concession."
Polanski, 88, his victim and journalists have asked judges over the years to unseal testimony given in 2009 by Roger Gunson, a retired deputy district attorney who was assigned to prosecute Polanski on charges that he sexually abused a 13-year-old girl.
