US attorneys for Roman Polanski have made a fresh petition to drop the child sex case against the filmmaker, saying the 1977 case was unfair, the Los Angeles Times said. Polanski's lawyers petitioned a California appellate court citing secret "communication" between two top officials in the district attorney's office and the original judge in the case, Laurence Rittenband ...

Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex case. They cited new evidence provided by the original prosecutor in the case who testified in ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed an appeal on Thursday demanding the fugitive film director be sentenced in California for a decades-old sex crime even as he remains under house arrest in Switzerland. They said Polanski was entitled under California law to be sentenced without returning in person to Los Angeles on a charge of having unlawful sex ...

The wife of Roman Polanski says she believes the 32-year-old sexual abuse case against her husband will be finished soon. French actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner, 43, is to appear in a TVN24 interview in Poland on Monday and the station ran some clips before ...