A Swiss court has granted filmmaker Roman Polanski's request for bail, but it looks like he'll stay in jail pending a possible appeal against the ruling.
The development in the case was reported by the BBC, which said bail was set at $4.5 million.
The BBC quoted the Swiss justice ministry as saying it would decide quickly whether to challenge the court's decision to release Polanski on bail.
Polanski, 76, was arrested on September 26 in Zurich in connection with a 1977 child-sex case in Los Angeles.
Polanski, who lives in France but was in Switzerland to attend a film festival, has not traveled to the United States since he pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles court to having unlawful sex with a minor and then fled the country before he could be sentenced.
He was accused of drugging and having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Polanski's lawyers have alleged misconduct on the part of the Los Angeles criminal justice system at the time of the plea deal, and are fighting extradition from Switzerland to the United States.
Maybe Polanski"s wife or dauther or son or grandkids should have this happen to them as he thinks it is ok for him to do it to a 13yr old he is a person that thinks only of himself and what should he get out of life and others should be at his whim and needs not much of a man if you ask me but hopeful krama will bite him in the a#%.
Posted by: Gary | Monday, November 30, 2009 at 02:04 PM