Roman Polanski, In A Royal Mess

 

Polanksi had fled America in 1977, after pleading guilty to charges he raped a 13-year-old girl. The Oscar-winning director left the States because he feared a judge would reject a the plea bargain he had made and send him to prison for 50 years.

Officials in Switzerland are holding Polanksi in jail, believing him to be a flight risk. But Temime claimed they should decide "very soon" on whether to grant him bail.

"I found him to be tired and depressed," his lawyer, Herve Temime, told a Sontag newspaper, Reuters reports.

"Roman Polanski, who is 76, seemed very dejected when I visited him," Temime explained to another paper.

"Polanski was in an unsettled state of mind," his lawyer added.