Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the US from Poland

Poland will not extradite Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to the US in an almost 40-year-old case after prosecutors declined to challenge a court ruling against it.

Prosecutors in Krakow, who had sought the extradition on behalf of the US, said that they found the court’s refusal of extradition to be “right” and said they found no grounds to appeal it.

Polanski’s lawyer, Jan Olszewski, told the Associated Press that Polanski’s reaction was of “great relief” and of satisfaction that the irregularities in the US procedure have been exposed.