LA porn trial suspended over judge Kozinski’s website

LA obscenity trial suspended over judge’s Web site

Jun 11, 11:22 PM (ET)

By GREG RISLING

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge has suspended the obscenity trial of a Los Angeles porn distributor following a newspaper report that the judge had sexually explicit material on his own Web site.

Judge Alex Kozinski on Wednesday granted a joint motion to suspend the trial after the prosecution said it needed time to look into the issue of the judge’s Web site.

The judge has told the jury to return on Monday. The panel spent hours at the Pasadena offices of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals watching videos depicting bestiality and extreme fetishes.

Kozinski is chief justice of the 9th Circuit but is serving as a trial judge in the obscenity case.

Would it be an issue if a judge does NOT like porn?

Are they saying Kozinski did something illegal?


Posted by Christine on 06/11/2008 at 10:37 PM
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