Quote:Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski will remain a fugitive from California justice under a judge's ruling Friday.

Polanski's latest effort to get his 40-year-old underage sex case dismissed was rejected by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon following a series of hearings, including one in which his victim urged that the case be dismissed.

Samantha Geimer, who was 13 in 1977 but has come to the director's defense in recent years, said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter that the ruling was "a heavy blow on my hopes (but) I will push on despite my tears and disappointment."

Polanski must return to California and face consequences, including arrest and jail, if he expects to resolve the 1977 charges of sexually abusing a teen, Gordon said in a ruling that came on Polanski's 84th birthday.

His 10-page ruling amounted to a sharp slap at the director and his lawyers for continuing to argue that his case should be dismissed without Polanski's return to California. Polanski fled in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a minor (Geimer) in 1977.

His motion for dismissal had to be juxtaposed with his continued refusal to obey court orders, Gordon wrote.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017...581994001/

Good.

You can't plead guilty, flee the country for 40 years to avoid punishment and then be handed a get out of jail free card

Not even Californian is dumb enough to establish that precedent.

He should be in prison.