Dariusz Mazur, a judge presiding over the case in the regional court in Krakow, complied with the film director’s lawyers’ request that the hearing be closed to the public. The decision was, Judge Mazur said, a standard procedure when proceedings concern sensitive material like sexual offenses.
The judge said the court would not make a ruling on Wednesday since Mr. Polanski’s legal representatives had handed in preliminary paperwork from his extradition proceedings in Switzerland in 2010 for the court’s consideration.
After more than nine months of Mr. Polanski’s detention resulting from a similar request from the United States, Swiss officials ultimately ruled against extradition. This was partly because of doubts over the conduct of the judge and prosecutor in the original trial in Los Angeles of Mr. Polanski, an Oscar-winning director. He fled the United States in 1978 before final sentencing.
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