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A window opens in the rape trial of Roman Polanski

2022-07-14T15:26:58.515Z


Yes from the Los Angeles Attorney to an unpublished testimony so far and even a California appeals court has given the green light to the publication of the testimony so far under secret. This is the version of the then deputy prosecutor Roger Gunson, according to which judge Laurence Rittenband attacked the Oscar-winning director (ANSA)


A crack opens in the American trial of the director

Roman Polanski

for the

rape of a thirteen-year-old woman

, which took place 45 years ago.

George Gascon, a Los Angeles attorney, announced that his office no longer opposes the disclosure of a document that could shed new light on the case and lead to a re-examination of him.

This is the transcript of the testimony of the then Deputy Prosecutor Roger Gunson, according to which the judge of the time Laurence Rittenband raged against the Oscar-winning director for 'The Pianist'.

Concurrent with the availability given by the new Los Angeles attorney, a California appeals court has given

the green light to the publication of a previously secret testimony that could help Roman Polanski

.

The California Appeals Court in Los Angeles ordered the California City Superior Court to review its previous decision and disclose the text of former Attorney Roger Gunson's testimony as requested by two writers, Sam Wasson and William Rempel, based on the Freedom of Information Act.

The document, collected in 2010, could help Polanski that the judiciary unjustly attacked him 45 years ago.

After pleading guilty to the rape of the minor Samatha Geimer, the director fled the United States on the eve of the sentence fearing that the judge who was in charge of the case, Laurence Rittenband, would have made shredded paper of the extrajudicial agreement and the consequent penalty discounts provided for. the defendants who come to terms with justice.

On July 13, an opening had opened for the 88-year-old Polanski when the Los Angeles attorney, George Gascón, gave the green light to the transcript of Gunson's testimony who in 1977 investigated the case.

The decision suggests a willingness to reconsider the affair "with new eyes".

Source: ansa

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