Director Roman Polanski’s attorneys launch a barrage against Los Angeles prosecutors to dismiss decades-old rape case.
Team Polanski's legal team filed court papers charging the district attorneys and judges carried out "serious misconduct" to prosecute the filmmaker, forcing him to return to the United States, AP reported.
The case dates back to 1977, when the Oscar-winning director was charged with raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot at Jack Nicholson’s house. Nicholson was not present at the time.
In a plea deal, the Polish-born director pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape.
He fled to France, the eve before sentencing.
As The ENQUIRER reported previously the filing centers on an attempt made last month to nab and extradite him while he was attending the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw.
Polanski’s attorneys say the Justice Department extradition request omitted that the director served 42 days of court-ordered prison time because prosecutors were trying to “fix” the case history to meet the criteria of an extradition treaty between the United States and Poland.
According to the legal docs filed yesterday, the prosecutor and Polanski's attorney understood that the time in the prison would serve as Polanski's punishment.
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