Is Polanski's Victim His Best Ally?
The lady who, as a teenager, was sexually assaulted by film director Roman Polanski, may yet prove his greatest ally.
Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time of the crime, has urged a dismissal of the case through her lawyers in a motion that was filed at Californian courts last week.
"No matter what his crime, Polanski was entitled to be treated fairly; he was not," the motion papers declare.
Mrs Geimer, in keeping with a recent documentary about the 1977 trial, has suggested that the original judge - now deceased - was corrupt.
News of Mrs. Geimer's actions are concurrent with a formal demand by the U.S. officials to extradite Polanski, as submitted by American Embassy staff in Bern on October 24th.