A new documentary that focuses on the controversy surrounding famed director Roman Polanski, his statutory rape trial and eventual fleeing to Europe, may be cause enough to finally close the case:

In a phone interview on Tuesday, his (Polanski’s) lawyer, Douglas Dalton, said Mr. Wells’s (former prosecutor) self-described contacts with the judge appeared to violate California law and legal ethics. At the time, Mr. Wells worked in the Santa Monica courthouse of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, but, after some initial involvement, he was not assigned to the Polanski case.

There could be a motion to dismiss based on prosecutorial misconduct, Mr. Dalton said. [NYTimes]

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The AP reports that an ex-prosecutor and former PTA president who is also the wife of a suburban police chief has been charged with having sex, smoking marijuana and drinking with high-school-age children.Beth Modica, 44, a former assistant district attorney in Rockland County and Queens, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to counts including statutory rape, sex abuse and endangering children.

This is a chilling reminder that predators can come in any gender, race or age.