From XBiz News:
Beverly Hills Attorney Fingered Kozinski’s Porn Stash
“Opening arguments were getting underway during the obscenity trial of scat porn producer Ira Isaacs yesterday morning when the Los Angeles Times broke the story that the judge presiding over the case, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Alex Kozinski, had published pornographic material on his personal website.”
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“Sanai revealed to XBIZ that he had been monitoring the judge’s site periodically and came across the pornographic material in December.
“Christmas Eve last year, Santa Claus decides to give me a present,” Sanai told XBIZ. “I found a link to the sub-directories on Kozinski’s website. And I found pornographic images, racially sensitive humor, personal photos and MP3 files.” ”
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Damn, it certainly sounds like this Sanai had a vendetta against Konzinski eh?
From Boing Boing:
Judge Alex Kozinski’s porn stash
“Judge Alex Kozinski is a friend of free speech. Now bloggers have discovered his secret online porn stash — and forgiven him for it. Yes, there’s naked women painted like cows, a man fellating himself, and two women hiking their skirts under a “Bush for President” sign…”
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“Here are the facts as I’ve been able to tell: For at least a month, a disgruntled litigant, angry at Judge Kozinski (and the Ninth Circuit) has been talking to the media to try to smear Kozinski. Kozinski had sent a link to a file (unrelated to the stuff being reported about) that was stored on a file server maintained by Kozinski’s son, Yale. From that link (and a mistake in how the server was configured), it was possible to determine the directory structure for the server. From that directory structure, it was possible to see likely interesting places to peer. The disgruntled sort did that, and shopped some of what he found to the news sources that are now spreading it…”
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I don’t really care what dirty pics Judge Kozinski has on his computer. What bothers me is the hypocrisy in these obscenity cases. Kozinski is a perfect example of how people like and want porn, even porn that is weird or twisted or kinky. And yet people who create weird, twisted or kinky porn, people like Isaacs, are being tried for obscenity. Neither Kozinski nor Isaacs should be put on trial, whether in legal court or in public.
From NY Daily News:
Judge Alex Kozinski recuses himself from trial of porn maker Ira Isaacs
“A high-ranking federal judge caught with raunchy photos on his personal Web site stepped down Friday from the obscenity trial of a Bronx-born fetish filmmaker.”
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“A Beverly Hills lawyer who tangled with Kozinski over a personal divorce case initially blew the whistle. Attorney Cyrus Sanai said he alerted several news organizations to the photos months ago, but it wasn’t until Kozinski stepped in to preside over Isaacs’ rare anti-smut case that the material sparked a media frenzy.
Friends say Kozinski is the victim of a disgruntled plaintiff bent on revenge.
“A lawyer who has a grudge against Kozinski rummaged around on his personal family server and found some sexual jokes that were never supposed to be for anything other than family and friends,” said UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh, a former Kozinski clerk and friend. ”
Posted by Vixen as News at 1:35 PM CDT