Jewish 9th Circuit Judge Had Porn Website
Bestiality on the Bench
by Ian Mosley
The Los Angeles Times reports “A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos…Alex Kozinski admits he posted some of the explicit content. He says he didn’t think the public could see the site, which is now blocked…. Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, granted a 48-hour stay in the obscenity trial of a Hollywood adult filmmaker after the prosecutor requested time to explore ‘a potential conflict of interest concerning the court having a . . . sexually explicit website with similar material to what is on trial here.’”
Mr. Kozinski is described as a “Jewish American jurist” on his wikipedia page. (No porn images there, by the way.)
Now that’s a bit of courtroom drama I would have liked to have seen. I can imagine the prosecutor saying: “I introduce State’s Exhibits 70 through 245, which also appear on his honor’s personal web site…” Why would someone create a website if he weren’t “showing off” his collection of porn? Given all the eight giga-byte flash drives available today, you’d think Kozinski would keep all his porn in his pocket. And shouldn’t a federal judge be of sufficiently good character that he should NOT have a porn collection in the first place? (more…)