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LA prosecutors: Polanski efforts go back decades

LA prosecutors Polanski

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 13:52

With Roman Polanski under arrest in Switzerland, US prosecutors disputed a claim by the director that they had never tried to nab him after he fled overseas to escape sentencing on charges he had sex with an underage girl. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office said Monday it had multiple contacts with several countries in efforts to arrest the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, including once with Israel as recently as 2007. In a statement, authorities challenged recent court filings by Polanski's lawyers that suggested he had not been arrested because doing so could draw attention to alleged misconduct by prosecutors. "The District Attorney's Office in the 30 years since Mr. Polanski left the jurisdiction, has not once sought to have him extradited," the attorneys wrote in a July filing. "If it had, there would have been a hearing regarding the misconduct in this case."

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