A Los Angeles court set a December 10 date for a hearing in the case against Franco-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski, the New York Times said in its online edition. Polanski, 76, was arrested in Zurich on September 26, based on a US warrant issued in 1978 stemming from Polanski’s admission to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in California in 1977. Polanski fled the US after spending 42 days in prison for psychiatric tests and has never been sentenced. In the December hearing, Polanski’s lawyers are to appeal a Superior Court decision from May, which rejected Polanski’s request to close the case against him.