MUMBAI: Filmmaker Roman Polanski‘s legal options narrowed on Monday as a Los Angeles judge denied his request to unseal testimony about a sentencing plan in his 33-year-old sex-crimes case.

Lawyers for Polanski had hoped to use the testimony of a retired prosecutor to fight his extradition to the United States from Switzerland where he is under house arrest. 

The conditional testimony of the retired prosecutor, Roger Gunson, was taken this year so it could be used if Gumson was not available to testify in any future sentencing hearing because of his Cancer ailment.

In denying the request, Judge Peter Espinoza of Los Angeles Superior Court said of the Swiss authorities, "I‘m satisfied that they have information that they need."