( CNN ) He was an acclaimed film director . She , a 13-year-old girl , working on a modeling job in California . The decision by Roman Polanski to have sex with Samantha Geimer was one that continues to dog him nearly four decades later . `` It was 1977 and I had a modeling job with Roman and at the very end of that he took advantage of me and made me have sex with him , '' Geimer said . At the time , Polanski pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sex with a minor . But the filmmaker fled the United States before he could be sentenced . Now , after a Polish prosecutor last month asked a regional court in Krakow to consider whether to extradite him to the United States , his case is being heard by a court there . Polanski appeared in court Wednesday to give evidence , following an opening statement from the prosecutor , court spokeswoman Beata Gorszczyk told CNN . The court was closed to the media Wednesday but will be open for any further hearings , she said . CNN 's Polish affiliate TVN reported the hearing was later postponed until April . Part of the reason , TVN reported , was the arrival of new documents concerning the United States ' attempt to have the director extradited from Switzerland in 2009 . Many of the documents , which arrived on Tuesday , are in German , meaning that the Kraków District Court is obliged to translate them . Regardless of the Polish court 's eventual ruling , the country 's justice minister has the right to veto the decision . The United States called on Poland to extradite Polanski after the director , who survived the Nazi-German occupation of Kraków , attended the grand opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw in January . The now 81-year-old is subject to an Interpol warrant -- and has successfully avoided arrest and extradition from Canada , France , Israel , Thailand and Switzerland , where he was placed under temporary house arrest in 2009 before the Swiss refused the U.S. request the following year . On more than one occasion , his victim has called for the charges against him to be dropped . `` Polanski went to jail for 42 days , '' Geimer said . `` I never asked anyone to put him in jail for a day and in the scheme of things , from what I have been told , in 1977 , 42 days would have been about average . `` However , I think that was a lot , plus he was arrested again and went to jail for months again -- that 's way in excess of anything he deserved . '' Polanski has also been vocal about the scandal . In the 2008 HBO documentary `` Wanted and Desired , '' he explained his actions . `` Well , I like young women , let 's put it this way , and I think most men do actually , '' he said . While on the run , Polanski has continued to make films and win accolades , including an Academy Award for `` The Pianist '' and nominations for `` Tess '' and `` Chinatown . '' The famed director has both French and Polish citizenship , and he is working on another movie in Poland , his parents ' homeland , this spring . But yet again , he finds himself facing an attempt to have him returned to the United States to answer the decades-old charges . In October : Polish authorities interview Roman Polanski , decline to arrest him . CNN 's Khushbu Shah and Artur Osinski contributed to this report .
Court is adjourned until April , delay partly due to documents that need to be translated . Roman Polanski gives evidence at his extradition hearing in Krakow , Poland . He is wanted for sentencing in the United States for having sex with a minor in the 1970s .