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		</div><p>Roman Polanski&#8217;s sex assault victim has told a judge to drop the 40-year-old case against the Oscar-winning director as an &#8220;act of mercy&#8221; to end her decades of suffering.</p>
<p>Samantha Geimer, 13 at the time of the attack, has long publicly supported the demise of the saga, but it is the first time she made the plea to a judge.</p>
<p>Ms Geimer, now 54, told Los Angeles Superior Court that she believes Polanski served his time when he spent 42 days in jail before he went on the run.</p>
<p>She said: <i>&#8220;I would implore you to consider taking action to finally put this issue to close as an act of mercy to myself and my family.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I would like to ask you to consider sentencing Mr Polanski to time served in absentia.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know Roman&#8217;s family has suffered as well &#8211; we are human beings.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A 40-year sentence has been imposed on the victim of the crime as well as the perpetrator.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Justice is not only about punishment, it&#8217;s about equity and consideration.&#8221;</i></p>
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<p>Ms Geimer, whose blonde bob was highlighted with a streak of pink, appeared in court alongside her husband David to make the motion which was supported by Polanski&#8217;s lawyer, Harland Braun.</p>
<p>She said she is now a grandmother and wants to end the media intrusion that she believes exists because the case is not settled.</p>
<p>But Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee rejected the victim&#8217;s motion to dismiss the case, arguing that it is in Polanski&#8217;s hands to return to the country to end the ordeal.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the people (state) who have caused her continued suffering,&#8221;</i> she said.</p>
<p>Judge Scott Gordon said he would respond in writing and thanked Ms Geimer for her bravery.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;You are an elegant and courageous testament to the fact that sexual assault not only impacts the victim at the time,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>Polanski, 83, has been in self-imposed exile for nearly four decades after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with Ms Geimer at actor Jack Nicholson&#8217;s Hollywood hills home in 1977.</p>
<p>The fugitive, currently living in France, admitted the lesser of six charges, the rest being dropped, after allegedly plying the teenager with champagne and a portion of a sedative pill during a photo shoot.</p>
<p>They are trying to get an Interpol arrest warrant lifted so his movement is not restricted to France, Switzerland and Poland, where he fled the Holocaust.</p>
<p>Mr Braun claims the case is no more than a &#8220;political circus&#8221; and that Polanski has already served his time by spending more than 300 days in jail and house arrest in Switzerland during a failed extradition attempt seven years ago.</p>
<p>Polanski, who won a best director Oscar for The Pianist, fled in 1978, fearing a judge would extend his sentence after he spent 42 days in jail.</p>
<p>Nicholson was not at home at the time of the offence and prosecutors dropped charges of rape and sodomy against Polanski.</p>
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