Judge orders Roman Polanski to return to US for trial.

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A judge has rejected director Roman Polanski's bid to be sentenced in absentia in a three-decade-old child-sex case.
Judge Peter Espinoza ruled that Polanski, 76, will have to come back Los Angeles to be sentenced.

"I have made it clear he needs to surrender," the judge said.
Polanski's attorneys said they would appeal.

The famed film director is under house arrest in Switzerland, where he is waiting to learn whether the Swiss government will extradite him to the U.S. to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

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