ZURICH (AP) -- Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed a motion in court Tuesday asking that the Oscar-winning director be released from Swiss custody - the first step in his legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States for a 1977 statutory rape case....
Polanski Asks Swiss Court To Free Him From Custody
By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER and ERNST E. ABEGG, Associated Press
Tue, 09/29/2009 - 8:05am
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