Polanski's Victim: 'Drop the Charges'

By Steven Mikulan Just as it looked as though Roman Polanski’s 31-year European exile would end with a Swiss extradition to America, the case has taken another twist. Samantha Geimer, whom Polanski was accused of raping and sodomizing at Jack Nicholson’s home in 1977 when she was 13, has called for the pending charges against him to be dropped. In one sense, this is nothing new: For years Geimer, now 44, has said she does not wish to see Polanski brought to trial, or even to court &ndash..;. (link)