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The latest news on Roman Polanski sentencing debate

By Douglas A. Berman

This new CNN article, which is headlined "Lawyers: Polanski doesn't need to be here for sentencing," provides some of the latest news of the latest drama in the long-running saga of Roman Polaski's sentencing.  Here are a few highlights: Attorneys for director Roman Polanski fired back against Los Angeles prosecutors, saying the law clearly allows for Polanski to be sentenced in absentia while under house arrest in Switzerland. The court papers, filed Monday, came in response to arguments by Los Angeles prosecutors that it would be improper to sentence Polanski in absentia after the director made "a mockery of our criminal justice system" for more than three decades. The famed director of "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Pianist" pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 but was never sentenced...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).