LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- A California appeals court has denied a petition for dismissal filed by the victim in the 1977 Roman Polanski child-sex case, officials said Thursday.
The 76-year-old Oscar winner has been under house arrest at a chalet in Switzerland since December 2009 while he awaits a decision regarding whether he will be extradited to the United States in the decades-old case in which he was accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He had been held in a Swiss jail for nearly two months before he posted bail and was placed under house arrest.