First, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Los Angeles Superior Court had called for a revision in the ending of Marina Zenovich’s Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which aired on HBO this past Monday; the documentary originally stated at the end that the judge who would have overseen the hearing in 1997 offered Polanski a deal to return to the US for the legal proceedings and he would get no jail time—providing the proceedings were televised. The Court called that claim “a complete fabrication,” and the corrected version stated that the judge, Larry Fidler, had requested that the trail be held “in public, on the record, and in court."

But in a report in The Hollywood Reporter, both Douglas Dalton, the attorney representing Polanski, and Roger Gunson, the prosecutor on the case, took issue with the Court, in a joint statement released Wednesday. Both claimed that Fidler had indeed presented the television provision.

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