This could be a big week for legal news junkies. The Mehserle verdict is not the only legal shoe that is about to drop.
As first reported by swissinfo.ch, a Swiss official has told the news agency that a decision on whether to grant the request of Los Angeles prosecutors (made through the State Department) to extradite Roman Polanski to face sentencing on his 32 year old statutory rape conviction has already been made, and will be announced shortly.
However, even if the Swiss—who are still smarting from political pressure that resulted in one of its major banks (UBS) violating Swiss secrecy laws by divulging the names of 4,000 tax cheats to the IRS—cave yet again to American pressure, don’t expect the director to be boarding the next Swiss Air flight to Los Angeles. Polanski will have the right to appeal the decision.
As reported by the Main Justice blog, The director is represented by Steptoe & Johnson’s Reid Weingarten, a well-known criminal defense lawyer and close friend of Attorney General Eric Holder.
In the meantime, Polanski is confined to his chalet and grounds in uber exclusive Gstaad—a fate not worse than death, unless you are allergic to fine wine, the best food, the company of royalty and the mountain air. (See our prior Polanski coverage, here--SCROLL DOWN.)
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