9th Circus Court of Appeals has conflict of interest? Na…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The criminal prosecution of a hard-core pornographer turned into a personal trial for the presiding judge, who called for an investigation Thursday into his own conduct over lewd photos and videos stored on his family’s publicly accessible Web site.
Kozinski, 57, left court Wednesday without comment after suspending the trial of Ira Isaacs, who is charged with obscenity for selling movies depicting bestiality and fetishes involving feces and urination. The delay until Monday will give lawyers time to consider whether to ask for Kozinski to step down from the case.
How can this be? I’m sure he was only doing “research”.
Kozinski who has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court candidate, is known for his intellectual rigor, writing flourishes and an outlandish - some say boorish - personality.
Hey, looks like he might qualify for Obama’s short list of potential candidates for the Supreme Court, eh?
Cyrus Sanai, a Beverly Hills lawyer who has had a long-running dispute with the 9th Circuit, took credit for bringing the graphic material to light.
Sanai said he discovered the sexual content in December while monitoring the judge’s Web site as part of his legal rift with the court. After downloading the files, Sanai said he began contacting reporters at various publications in January to bring attention to what he called widespread ethical problems on the 9th Circuit.
He provided a copy of the files to The Associated Press on Wednesday, which appeared to mirror the Times’ descriptions of videos and pictures on the Web site.
This guy should be given a friggin’ medal, - even if he IS a lawyer. I’m sure that the other members of said court were busy later in the evening deleting THEIR caches of “research” materials.
