{"id":51275,"date":"2017-04-05T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51275"},"modified":"2017-04-05T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:06:05","slug":"51275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51275","title":{"rendered":"Roman Polanski&#8217;s no jail return offer rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-news-header__logo-image alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/assets\/sky-news-logo.png\" alt=\"Sky News logo\" width=\"35%\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/roman-polanskis-no-jail-return-offer-rejected-10824166\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Polanski&#8217;s no jail return offer rejected<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The director loses another bid to end his 1970s unlawful sex case without serving more time behind bars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/17\/02\/992x558\/1416a2ac18f43c201a54f6575dcd44341f4b41b1efe80863e37f15fa985a39e2_3892487.jpg?20170217072236\" alt=\"Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl and fled the United States in 1978 on the eve of sentencing \" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl and fled the United States in 1978 on the eve of sentencing<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Roman Polanski&#8217;s offer to go back to the US in return for an assurance he would not serve more jail time has been refused.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Oscar-winning director of The Pianist and Chinatown pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl at actor Jack Nicholson&#8217;s house but left the US in 1978 the day before he was to be sentenced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Last month, however, prosecutors in the 83-year-old&#8217;s case told a hearing that he should return to the US and should not receive special treatment because of his fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Polanski&#8217;s lawyers had said he would return from nearly 40 years on the run if he was promised he would not have to spend any more time in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee said: &#8220;The People simply do not believe it is in the best interests of justice to give a wealthy celebrity &#8211; and that&#8217;s what Mr Polanski is &#8211; different treatment than any other fugitive from justice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/17\/02\/750x563\/d1eddebbf70e79dea42105879cbc538e0ac31680a8c6d253447a9f491d53f51c_3892492.jpg?20170404045316\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Samantha Geimer accused Polanski of raping her at Jack Nicholson&#8217;s house in 1977<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">She said Polanski &#8220;wants answers but will only show up if he likes the answers&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Harland Braun, representing Polanski, admitted the film-maker had committed an &#8220;indefensible&#8221; crime but said the court had &#8220;lied&#8221; to him about his possible sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mr Braun said his client &#8220;wants to wrap up&#8221; the case, adding: &#8220;We know what he was promised &#8211; we know he has served eight times what he was promised&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But in a statement on Monday, a Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman said Judge Scott Gordon had &#8220;ruled that defendant&#8217;s motions and corresponding requests are denied&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In his ruling, Judge Gordon wrote: &#8220;There is no sufficient or compelling basis for reconsideration of these issues.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The French-Polish director lives in France, having fled the US after 42 days in jail because he said a judge had gone back on a promise about how he would be sentenced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He was arrested in Switzerland in 2009 on a US extradition request and spent 10 months under house arrest before the request was rejected by the Swiss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The US then asked Poland to send him back in 2015 but courts there decided he had served his time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Another court hearing is set for 26 April in the US regarding a bid by Polanski&#8217;s lawyers to unseal evidence given in the case by original prosecutor Roger Gunson.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; 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