GENEVA (AP) -- Lawyers for Roman Polanski split on strategies Wednesday, with one suggesting for the first time that Polanski ability voluntarily return to the U.S. to face justice in California for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Until now the position had been that the Oscar-winning director, who has been a avoiding for 31 years, would not surrender to U.S. authorities.

The new access emerged a day afterwards a Swiss cloister dealt the 76-year-old filmmaker a major setback by rejecting his absolution from jail because of the high risk he would flee again. Polanski, who has until Oct. 29 to appeal the decision, faces lengthy detention if he is bootless in the bail bid and continues to fight extradition.

"If the proceedings annoyance on, it's not completely impossible that Roman Polanski ability decide to go explain himself in the United States, where there are arguments in his favor," one of his lawyers, Georges Kiejman, told Europe 1 radio.

Kiejman could not be accomplished afterward to elaborate, but fellow Polanski advocate Herve Temime alone the abstraction that the director's legal team was now considering waiving extradition. Both lawyers are based in Paris.

Polanski has not set foot in the United States back beat sentencing in 1978. He did not alike return when he won the Academy Award in 2003 for directing "The Pianist."

"We continue to fight extradition, and for him to be free," Temime told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "There is actually no change of strategy."

Beyond arduous the court's Oct. 19 bail denial, his legal team can submit a new proposal, possibly substituting a massive cash! agreeme nt instead of his Gstaad berth as security. They accept additionally unsuccessfully proposed some form of house arrest and cyberbanking monitoring as added altitude for his release.

The administrator of such blur classics as "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown" was accused of raping the 13-year-old girl, afterwards plying her with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill during a modeling shoot in 1977. He was initially accusable on six abomination counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy.

Polanski pleaded guilty to the bottom allegation of actionable animal intercourse. In exchange, the adjudicator agreed to drop the remaining accuse and book him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. However, he was appear afterwards 42 canicule by an evaluator who deemed him mentally complete and unlikely to affront again.

The adjudicator responded by adage he was going to send Polanski back to jail for the butt of the 90 canicule afterwards which he would seek "voluntary deportation." Polanski then fled the country on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was appointed to be sentenced to the additional time.

Polanski, a French native who confused to Poland as a child, has lived in France back beat the U.S. He was arrested on Sept. 26 as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime accomplishment award from a blur festival.

Swiss admiral tipped the United States about Polanski's visit and set in motion his apprehension, according to abstracts acquired by the AP. On Wednesday, a top Swiss official dedicated the move.

Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said the e-mails - acquired in Los Angeles by the AP under a U.S. public annal appeal - showed that Swiss admiral followed proper police procedure when a capital alone is expected in Switzerland.

"An arrest is a big operation," Galli told the AP. "If we apperceive a capital al! one is c oming, we always ask if the arrest warrant is valid."

According to the e-mails, the Swiss admiral beatific an urgent fax to the U.S. Office of International Affairs on Sept. 22 advertence Polanski was traveling to Zurich. The administrator was to be feted at a blur festival, and Swiss admiral capital to apperceive if the U.S. would be submitting a appeal for his arrest back he was the subject of an international law enforcement "Red Notice."

"The Americans immediately accepted that was the case," Galli said.

As a result, Switzerland was required by treaty to apprehend Polanski, he said.

Galli additionally addressed the nagging catechism of why authorities decided to go afterwards Polanski now, alike admitting he has been a frequent visitor to Switzerland. Unlike his antecedent visits, he said, Polanski's appearance this time was widely advertised, with the Zurich Film Festival announcement its upcoming accolade to the administrator on its Web site.

Several Swiss politicians and commentators accept argued that Switzerland may accept cooperated too energetically, and that recent U.S.-Swiss troubles over wealthy American tax cheats and Swiss banks may accept provided motivation for the arrest.

But Swiss authorities accept adamantly alone that suggestion.

After receiving the tip, U.S. federal admiral alerted the Los Angeles commune attorney's office, which immediately began drafting an arrest warrant.

Laura Sweeney, a backer with the U.S. Department of Justice, said she could not animadversion on any of the events leading up to Switzerland's fax to the United States.

Los Angeles commune advocate backer Sandi Gibbons said it was not unusual for her appointment to receive information on fugitives' whereabouts, but she beneath to animadversion further.

Pet! er Cosan dey, a above Zurich prosecutor, declared the warrant procedure as normal.

Dieter Jann, another ex-district attorney, agreed.

"It's actually accustomed for countries to exchange tips on capital people and to allure each added to take action," he said. "If it wasn't Polanski, everyone would anticipate this is right."

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AP contributor Thomas Watkins in Los Angeles contributed to this report.