From Variety:

On Monday, attorney Chad Hummel filed two documents with the Los Angeles Superior Court outlining all the reasons why that court should be disqualified from weighing the director’s decades-old case. A hearing on Polanski’s early December request to have the sexual misconduct case dismissed had been set for Jan. 21.

Polanski fled the United States more than 30 years ago on the eve of sentencing, convinced he would not get a fair shake from Judge Lawrence Rittenband, and has lived in European exile ever since. His fugitive status is central to the latest request.

Hummel said that court expressed a “predetermination” on the issue when it indicated that Polanski would have to appear at the hearing.

Above: Dance of the Vampires, AKA The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are In My Neck.

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