LOS ANGELES (AP) β An attorney for the woman who was sexually assaulted by Roman Polanski when she was 13 is praising a Polish court’s refusal to send the Oscar-winning director to Los Angeles.
A judge in Krakow on Friday rejected an effort by U.S. officials to extradite Polanski.
Lawyer Lawrence Silver, who represents Samantha Geimer, says he has already sent a note congratulating Polanski’s lawyers in Poland.
He also called Friday for Los Angeles prosecutors to end any efforts to extradite the director, who fled the United States in 1978 on the eve of sentencing after he pleaded guilty to an unlawful sexual intercourse charge.
Geimer, who long ago identified herself as Polanski’s victim, has said she forgives the director. She was attacked in 1977 after a photo session.
