The Los Angeles Times just broke a news story about a well-respected judge, Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who has been operating a Web site containing some sexually explicit photographs.
The judge’s site was up and running — irony of ironies — even as he began presiding over the obscenity trial of Ira Isaacs, a filmmaker charged with distributing criminally obscene pornography, including shots that depicted bestiality. Another coincidence: the judge’s site also allegedly included some sexual images of people and/with farm animals.
The judge has taken the site down, but he also claims that he didn’t know it could be accessed by the public. His son had maintained it — and might have been responsible for some of the images found there.
However, the judge also admitted that he received those kinds of weird photos all the time — and that he thought they were sometimes pretty funny. He also doesn’t believe that the images on his particular site are obscene — even if they are a little odd and racy.
Now the issue seems to be whether Kozinski should excuse himself from the case. That’s probably an easy call, no?
His site was www.alex.kozinski.com and included much more than just sexual material. It isn’t up right now. He pulled it early this morning. But who knows? Maybe it’ll be back up soon — probably without its more controversial fare. Hopefully, he’ll keep the video from his past appearance on The Dating Game as part the site’s next iteration.
(Image from photobucket.com)
