Polish court to hold session on Oscar-winning director Polanski's extradition

The Polish court in Krakow will hold another session on April 9 to decide whether to extradite Oscar-winning director, Roman Polanski, to the United States.

The court will examine the motions for evidence submitted by director's barrister during the last session, held on Feb. 25, informed the Polish Press Agency.

The next session will not require the presence of Polanski, who had already made all the statements. The whole process took more than nine hours and, according to the director, "were painful, because he had to go back to issues he'd rather forget."

The council for defense would try to prove the extradition request groundless. They also want the court to apply for the U.S. persecutor's interrogation protocol, claiming it contains the information of reaching a settlement between the parties, which is pivotal for the case.

During the next session, the court will also have to decide whether to include documents from the extradition proceedings held in Switzerland into the evidence material.

Polanski, who won an Oscar in 2002 for directing "The Pianist," was pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in the United States. He fled to France in 1978 before he could be sentenced. The United States lodged a formal extradition request to Poland in October 2014. Endit