An attorney for Roman Polanski has told a Los Angeles judge that the fugitive film director won’t appear at a hearing this week to seek dismissal of the 31-year-old sex case against him.
A court document filed Monday argues that Polanski’s personal appearance is irrelevant to the question of whether official misconduct violated his constitutional rights.
Polanski, now 75, pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. He subsequently fled to France.
The judge has refused to consider dismissal as long as Polanski remains a fugitive. If he returns to the United States from France he would risk arrest.
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal were married Saturday, said Amanda Silverman, Gyllenhaal’s publicist. She didn’t provide any details.
Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard have a daughter, Ramona, who was born in October 2006. They announced their engagement earlier that year.
Gyllenhaal’s film roles include “The Dark Knight” and “World Trade Center.” Sarsgaard has appeared in the films “Jarhead,” “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Kinsey.”
Some performers from the 1969 Woodstock concert will get back to the garden for a 40th anniversary show this summer.
On the bill for Aug. 15 are The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain, and Country Joe McDonald.
They’ll perform at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y. It was built on the site of the dairy farm trampled on by some 400,000 people on the weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969.
Associated Press
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