The American court reopens the case of Roman Polanski

According to the film reporter of Fars News Agency, quoted by varietyThe trial of Roman Polanski’s sexual assault case under the title “New View” project will be resumed by the Los Angeles court.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has agreed to release the transcript of a long-sought Roman Polanski letter as prosecutors re-examine the 45-year-old director’s alleged sexual assault on “A New Look.”

Gascon announced Tuesday that the office has changed its position and will no longer oppose the release of the 2010 subpoena of Deputy District Attorney Roger Gunson, who prosecuted Polanski for allegedly assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Polanski is now 88 years old. He pleaded guilty at the time but fled to France before the verdict. He has been living abroad since then. Multiple attempts by former offices to extradite him have failed, as have Polanski’s efforts to resolve the case without returning to the United States.

This announcement showed that Gascon, who was elected in 2020, has changed his approach towards the previous person in charge of pursuing this case. His office also signaled a willingness to take a fresh look at the case, which Polanski and his supporters have long argued was tainted by prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

“This suspicion has been around for 40 years,” Gascon’s special counsel Tiffany Blacknell told Variety in an interview. “Many people suspect that something untoward has happened. This curiosity and concern is still there for us.”

Polanski’s attorney, Harland Brown, previously argued that Gunson’s transcript substantiated Judge Lawrence Rittenband’s allegations of misconduct against Polanski. Brown’s request to reopen it was denied by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in 2017, along with his requests to dismiss the case and sentence Polanski in absentia. Similar attempts to unseal the transcript and settle the case were also rejected in 2010.

The latest activity in the case began last fall, when two of the book’s authors — William Rempel and Sam Wasson — asked the court to strike down the transcript under the First Amendment. The court initially opposed the release, and a judge denied the request. William Rempel and Sam Wasson are now pursuing an appeal.

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