As some pw regulars already know, Alex 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 judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.
The story was broken by the L.A. Times, but Patterico has spoken to the tipster Cyrus Sanai, who e-mailed Patterico images that he says he downloaded from Judge Alex Kozinski’s web site on December 24, 2007. Patterico, following Justice Potter Stewart’s maxim, has posted the images online:
I warn you that many of these images are pornographic, perverted, and/or disturbing. You should definitely not view them while you are at work. Depending on your sensibilities, you may not want to view them at home.
However, he does make you click links to see the NSFW stuff, such as photos of: naked women on all fours painted to look like cows; a young man bent over in a chair performing fellatio on himself; two women sitting in what appears to be a cafe with their skirts hiked up to reveal their pubic hair and genitalia, in front of a sign reading “Bush for President.â€Â
The L.A. Times gets some expert opinion:
Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics and has known Kozinski for years, called him “a treasure of the federal judiciary.” Gillers said he took the judge at his word that he did not know the site was publicly available. But he said Kozinski was “seriously negligent” in allowing it to be discovered.
That sounds kind of Pfleger-esque to me. One of my first questions was what Kozinski — an appellate judge — was doing presiding over a trial. The paper explains:
The judge said it was strictly by chance that he wound up presiding over the trial of filmmaker Ira Isaacs in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Appellate judges occasionally hear criminal cases when they have free time on their calendars, and the Isaacs case was one of two he was given, the judge said.
Isaacs is on trial for distributing sexual fetish videos, featuring acts of bestiality and defecation. The material is considerably more vulgar than the content posted on Kozinski’s website.
Apparently, Kozinski had a bit too much time on his hands. I’ll skip the obvious punchline.
I imagine most people would be more offended by the sign than by the display. (Paris, Britney, Lindsay, Anna Nicole, Madonna, etc., have made being a slut not important enough to be commented upon.)
I imagine the “little boy” is just some clothing stuffed with cotton or batting or something similar, just to shock and offend.
I know what I’m gonna be this Halloween…
Good grief. I could hardly bear to read that description much less click on any links.
Seriously. What kind of FREAKS look at this stuff.
I fear for humanity. I really do.
RWS – How are you?
PUBIS…TS!
Apparently, Kozinski is “only” human
Now you can all put down those stones,
unless yee is without internet porn sin
Kozinski is (was?) one of the bastions of sanity on the 9th Circus, one of the few (the only?) that had a concept of RKBA beyond ‘only the military and police need guns, not you common folk.’
Crap.
JD,
I’m good. How is the baby?
Judge Kozinski=porn hero=great judge… Judge Ruth Ginsberg=porn repellent=bad judge…coincidence?
Does he post here?
I have so little patients for the crankery of old men. How do they get so ….stupid.
I forget who said it, but “the law is an ass” is certainly appropriate here.
I wonder how long people will tolerate the whims of these unelected clowns? I’m tolerant of most faults, but not hypocrisy.
I doubt the judge is any more deviant than the rest of us but there is the whole “appearance of impropriety” thing to consider.. I think he should just recuse himself in this case.
I’m not sure how they’re going to try this case fairly.. I mean, looking at the extreme type of fetish porn this guy produces one is either going to be totally repulsed and sickened or is going to enjoy it.. No in between.. I don’t think one can view this type material and remain unaffected .. Doubt this statement? Look up “Two Girls, One Cup” , the viral porn video that swept the internet about a year ago.. Watch it then try to imagine watching it and similar all day, everyday for days.. Kind of hard to stay detached and neutral.
Considering the fact that no one is being hurt making his videos, no minors are involved and the tapes are only viewed by adults that pay for the right to (ewwww) view them I wonder why our government is expending all the time, money and resources to prosecute this… Aren’t there enough REAL crimes and dangerous criminals out there to go after?
RWS, the descriptions were purposefully lurid and sensational.
If this post didn’t draw Lisa out, nothing will.
Sugartits
what has not been photo-shopped has been in circulation since 01.
Apparently, nothing more than a bunch of R-rated “caught on film”, or more likely, “staged on film,” caps with some “crazy morning DJ” crap tossed in. also, the 99 millionth transposition of bush–as in vagina–with POTUS BUSH joke. probably photoshopped, which is fitting.
what is not asinine is puerile, but I saw nothing that was pr0n. the judge is a dick for letting this be accessed and needs to grow up.