Samantha Geimer, Roman Polanski’s "kiddie sex" victim, wants the 40-year-old case against the fugitive Academy Award-winning director closed, reported Deadline.com, and hoped to get a chance to say that in court on Friday.
Geimer was flying from her home in Hawaii to ask a Los Angeles Superior Court to unseal testimony from a former deputy district attorney in hopes it will lead to a resolution in the case.
Deadline.com said if Geimer actually testifies, it would be the first time she had personally addressed the case in a public court. Geimer was 13 and Polanski 43 at the time of the accused rape in 1977, according to The Associated Press.
Geimer publicly identified herself with the case several years ago and published a tell-all memoir.
Polanski, now 83, has been a fugitive since he fled to France in 1978 on the eve of sentencing on a count of having unlawful sex with a minor, said The AP, after prosecutors had dropped charges that he drugged, raped and sodomized her.
Polanski pleaded guilty and spent 42 days in jail, then bolted the United States for Europe, saying he feared his plea bargain with prosecutors would be overruled and that he would be slapped with a lengthy prison term, reported Reuters.
Numerous attempts by Polanski over the years to reach a legal deal have been rebuffed, the last just recently.
"Samantha Geimer is tired of this," Polanski's attorney Harland Braun, told Reuters on Thursday. "She has been asking the court to terminate this case for years. She wants to get it over with."
Braun told Reuters he hopes the unsealed testimony would reveal the Polanski's plea deal which he wants to use as evidence to European authorities to rescind the international arrest warrant against Polanski.
Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee has asked the court to reject Polanski's latest efforts, arguing that two previous Superior Court judges and an appeals court have ruled against the movie director, said The AP.
"The people implore this court to deny defendant's motions and to summarily deny any future request to re-litigate these issues absent a showing of new facts or a change in circumstance," Hanisee wrote, per The AP.
In the past, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon has rejected Polanski's efforts to resolve the case while he remained a fugitive and has declined to say if he would be sentenced to more time or be arrested if he voluntarily returned for a sentencing hearing.
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