KRAKOW, Poland — A Polish court said Tuesday it would rule on a U.S. request to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski over a 1977 child sex conviction at a sitting on Oct. 30.
The Oscar-winner pleaded guilty in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl during a photoshoot in Los Angeles.
Polanski served 42 days in jail after a plea bargain. He fled the United States the following year, believing the judge hearing his case could overrule the deal and put him in jail for years.
“It is the court’s intention to make a decision on Roman Polanski’s potential extradition at the next sitting,” Judge Dariusz Mazur at the district court in the southern city of Krakow said.