ROMAN POLANSKI - POLANSKI SAYS HE'S SEEKING JUSTICE, NOT A RETURN TO U.S.

POLANSKI SAYS HE'S SEEKING JUSTICE, NOT A RETURN TO U.S.

Roman Polanski says he is seeking to have the 1977 rape charges against him dismissed not because he wants to return to the United States but because he wants to "leave a legacy of justice," his attorney said in a court filing on Tuesday. Attorney Chad Hummel said that Polanski has no plans ever to return to this country but wants an independent judge to consider the revelations of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct that were exposed in a documentary, Roman Polanski Wanted and Desired , last year. A hearing on the motion is scheduled on January 21, but prosecutors insist that the director must attend in person, thereby risking arrest.

14/01/2009