The Latest Breaking News from Roman Polanski

Los Angeles (AFP) - Testimony from a key prosecutor in the statutory rape case against Roman Polanski must be unsealed, more than 40 years after the fugitive director was convicted, a California court has ruled.

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…

A US court of appeal has ordered that a key transcript sought by Roman Polanski can be unsealed, so that the filmmaker's 45-year-old rape case might be re-examined.

A California appeals court has ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case against renowned director Roman Polanski, who's been a fugitive since pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl decades ago

It comes less than 48 hours after the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office said they would no longer object to the document’s release.

District attorney George Gascón says his office has asked to unseal transcripts in effort to re-examine case

The filmmaker pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 then fled the US.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón asked a state appeals court Tuesday to unseal transcripts related to the criminal case against Roman Polanski, which could end the decades-long legal saga over the film director's sexual abuse of a teenager in 1977.

Los Angeles (AFP) - Los Angeles prosecutors said Tuesday they will no longer oppose the release of sealed transcripts in the statutory rape case against Roman Polanski -- documents which the fugitive director has previously argued could reveal judicial misconduct.

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