After 12 years in a lock box, former Los Angeles County prosecutor Roger Gunson’s conditional testimony in the Roman Polanski sex case was unsealed by court order on Thursday, and copies of a trans…
. Through much of the unsealed testimony, Zenovich’s narrative served as a guide through the thicket of steps and missteps that turned into a 45-year legal nightmare.
For Gunson, according to his testimony, use of the examination as a sentence was contrary to law. But so was Rittenband’s decision, in the face of public disapproval, to shift gears after Polanski’s detention, adding a potential sentence of between six months and fifty years, but privately assuring lawyers that he would let Polanski out of prison after he had served an additional 48 days.
The testimony, before Judge Mary Lou Villar, was conducted by lawyer’s Chad Hummel and Bart Dalton in Polanski’s behalf, and by deputy David Walgren for the District Attorney’s office. Sparring between the two sides gave a preview of what a Polanski trial might look like—while Gunson, though cooperative, often struggled to recall crucial details, and had to be prompted with notes and documents that had accumulated over the years.
In another go-round, Gunson testified that two prosecutors who initially worked on the case were discovered to have photographed themselves holding Jack Nicholson’s Oscars while executing a search warrant at the actor’s house, but failed to deliver expected photo evidence, supposedly because they ran out of film.
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