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Polanski: Sentence Me in Absentia

Court suggested procedure as solution to stalemate

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 6, 2010 6:57 PM CST

(Newser) – Roman Polanski today asked a Los Angeles judge to sentence him in absentia for his 1977 conviction for statutory rape—a move suggested earlier by an appellate court after it dismissed the director’s request to have the charges dismissed. Polanski, 76, is under house...   Read full story »

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