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Feds Want All Ninth Circuit Judges Off Obscenity Case

By Corey Rayburnyung

Federal prosecutors in the criminal trial over adult filmmaker Ira Issacs are asking for the recusal of every judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  A mistrial was declared after reports surfaced that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski posted sexually explicit material on his personal website. How Appealing has more. From the ABA Journal:Prosecutors are seeking the recusal of every judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a pornography appeal because of an ethics investigation involving the circuit?s chief judge and his racy website. Matthew Friedrich, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department?s criminal division, was among the prosecutors filing the ?notice of potential need for recusal," the Daily Journal reports...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).