/Filmcast Ep. 69 - Surrogates (GUEST: Eric D. Snider from Film.com and Cinematical)

AP - The following excerpts are from a transcript of the March 1977 grand jury proceedings that led to Roman Polanski's indictment on charges of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14, unlawful sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 18, rape by use of drugs, perversion (now called oral copulation) and sodomy.

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London (ANI): The French government has withdrawn its support to film director Roman Polanski, who is currently held in Switzerland, after a campaign for his release was shunned by many leading European political and cultural figures. The foreign minister of France

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The Associated Press has released the following excerpts from a transcript of the March 1977 grand jury proceedings that led to Roman Polanski's indictment on charges of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14, unlawful sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 18, rape by use of drugs, perversion (now called oral copulation) and sodomy.

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A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case to send the director to prison.

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If Roman Polanski were charged with child rape today, DNA evidence, stiffer penalties, outcry over childhood sexual abuse and tougher scrutiny of celebrity justice would make prosecutors much less willing to cut the plea deal the director received more than 30 years ago, legal experts say.

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It's liberals who are always accused of being too worried about fairness, but when it comes to Roman Polanski, it's conservatives who are playing the fairness card.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case to send the director to prison. In "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," David F. Wells is depicted as conferring with a trial judge more than 30 years ago about Polanski's case. Wells said in the documentary that the judge took his advice in deciding to renege on a plea bargain and give

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The former prosecutor who said in a documentary film that he advised a judge to send Roman Polanski to prison now says he lied in the movie.

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peter fonda likes to keep things in perspective. Perhaps a little too much. The Easy Rider actor is speaking up about director Roman Polanski, who's currently facing charges of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1973. According to Fonda, he doesn't understand the hoopla over Polanksi because, hey, things could be worse. Says Fonda, "We should have been celebrating the arrest of Osama bin Laden and not the arrest of Polanski. [Roman Polanski]

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AP - Los Angeles County's top prosecutor said Thursday that his office isn't persecuting Roman Polanski, but is merely trying to resolve a case delayed by the director's flight from the country in 1978.

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AP - Los Angeles County's top prosecutor said Thursday that his office isn't persecuting Roman Polanski, but is merely trying to resolve a case delayed by the director's flight from the country in 1978.

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LOS ANGELES - A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case to send the director to prison.

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If Roman Polanski were charged with child rape today, DNA evidence, stiffer penalties, outcry over childhood sexual abuse and tougher scrutiny of celebrity justice would make prosecutors much less willing to cut the plea deal the director received more than 30 years ago, legal experts say.

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A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case to send the director to prison.

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