Prosecutor: Polanski defense motion is 'frivolous' (AP)

The California Second District Court of Appeal had stopped a scheduled hearing and asked for the district attorney's response to the motion by Polanski's lawyer.

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Polanski is seeking dismissal of a 31-year-old rape case involving a 13-year-old girl. However, his lawyer, Chad Hummel, made a last-minute plea to stay the hearing claiming the entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench was biased against the award-winning movie director. Hummel argued that the county court system 's 600 members should be disqualified from hearing the case and a neutral judge should be appointed from outside the county. Espinoza, the Superior Court's presiding judge who was scheduled to conduct the hearing, turned down the original claim of bias.

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