Polanski Victim: Give Him Time Served

The attorney for the victim in Roman Polanski's 32-year-old sex case on Wednesday joined his lawyers' bid to have the director sentenced in absentia.

On behalf of the victim, Samantha Geimer, attorney Lawrence Silver supported another motion by Polanski's lawyers urging he be sentenced to time served. He faxed to lawyers in the case a motion he planned to file Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, which was closed Wednesday.

The move follows a motion filed last month by Polanski's lawyers, who argued he should be sentenced in absentia.

The director was arrested Sept. 26 in Switzerland and is currently under house arrest at his chalet as Swiss authorities weigh whether to extradite him to the United States.

At issue is whether Polanski served a proper sentence. The judge at the time, Laurence Rittenband, sent the director for a diagnostic study at a California prison where he served 42 days.

In a new revelation, Silver wrote in his legal filing that he witnessed Rittenband say in his chambers that no other incarceration would be imposed, only to then renege on his promise and threaten to send Polanski to an indeterminate prison sentence. Polanski fled the country soon after.

Silver also accused prosecutors of violating the California constitution when they failed to tell Geimer of their plans to seek Polanski's extradition to the U.S.

Geimer was 13 when she met Polanski for a modeling shoot in Los Angeles in 1977. Polanski, the 76-year-old director of "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," was accused of plying the teen with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill, then raping her during a modeling shoot.

He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse.