A decisive hearing in the Polanski case in Los Angeles has once again been postponed

Will the seals on the testimony of Roger Gunson be lifted one day in the Polanski affair? The hearing, scheduled for Thursday in Los Angeles, has been postponed again, this time to March 8, as announced by Deadline. This testimony, dating from 2010, is important for the director who claims that his rights have been violated in this case which has been going on since the end of the 1970s.

Roman Polanski had admitted having had a sexual relationship with Samantha Geimer, then 13 years old. Sentenced to 90 days in prison after an agreement with the prosecutor at the time, the filmmaker, who was 43 years old at the time of the events, had fled the United States when this decision seemed to be questioned with a sentence of 50 years behind bars in the balance.

Since considered a fugitive by American justice, Roman Polanski has never set foot in the country. And that’s what’s at stake with the new Los Angeles prosecutor.

The condition

Like his predecessor, George Gascón is not in favor of unsealing the testimony of the former prosecutor. In any case, not in the state. If Roman Polanski agrees to return to the United States to face justice, he would be much more inclined to support the request of the two journalists, Sam Wasson and William Rempel, who wish to make this testimony public.

Their request had already been postponed to give the prosecutor’s team more time to prepare their response. This time, it was the rise in covid cases in California that was put forward by judge Sam Ohta, in charge of the case, to postpone this hearing to next month.