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Hon. Alex Kozinski and the Challenge for Judges

By Steven Rodriguez

Hon. Alex Kozinski, the 9th Circuit Court Chief Judge, has recently found himself in some serious trouble.  He posted some sexual content on the Internet, photos and videos, which were discovered by the prosecuting attorney.  The case was an obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court and seeing as how the judge had many images and some videos of “obscene” materials, the attorneys felt the judge should remove himself. The trial Kozinski was presiding over involved Ira Isaacs who was being prosecuted for the extreme sexual content he distributed that is considered criminally obscene, as it depicts fetish videos depicting bestiality and defecation.  In a trial such as this, prosecutors would want to be sure there was no grounds for an appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).