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What should we make of Judge Kozinski's porn postings?

By Douglas A. Berman

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Here's the start of a fascinating porn and judging story broken by the Los Angeles Times today: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, 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." In an interview Tuesday with The Times, Kozinski acknowledged posting sexual content on his website...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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