Article was updated.
Apparently the appeals court has reversed the lower court ruling and will allow Polanski out on 4.5 Million Bail.
This is “nothing” for him ....
further,
they believe that the “additional measures” (turning over his passport) and “house arrest” with a gps sender are sufficient.
considering that the borders here are open (i.e. no need to show a passport to cross over to france, germany, austria or italy) I doubt that the lack of a passport will be much of a hindrance. and the gps is a joke - he can be over the border before they even know he is moving!