Polanski Once Again Seeks to Resolve 40-Year-Old Sex Crime
- Film director asks to return to U.S. to visit wife’s grave
- Prosecutors ‘unwavering’ in opposition to fugitive’s request
Roman Polanski.
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Roman Polanski wants to resolve the sexual misconduct conviction that’s haunted him for 40 years and visit the Los Angeles grave of actress Sharon Tate, his wife murdered by the Charles Manson family in 1969.
The film director, a fugitive since 1978 when he left the U.S. a day before his scheduled sentencing, is asking a California court to close the books on the case with a recognition that Polanski already has spent far more time behind bars than what was promised by the judge who initially presided over his case.