US appeals judge shares porn stash with world +dog
Maverick libertarian presiding over obscenity trial
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Seven years ago, Alex Kozinski, one of the highest-ranking federal judges in the US, helped lead a successful insurrection after discovering court administrators had installed web filters that prevented jurists from accessing pornography.
Now we know why.
The chief judge of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has been caught hosting an extensive collection of porn on his publicly-available personal website. Visitors were treated to a photo of a naked woman on all fours painted to look like cows and a half-naked man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. Other images depicted contortionist and public sex, masturbation, urination, defecation and a step-by-step series of a woman shaving her pubic hair.
The material was discovered as the outspoken libertarian judge presides over a criminal obscenity trial under a program that allows appeals judges to occasionally handle criminal proceedings. Federal prosecutors have charged Ira Isaacs, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, with a variety of obscenity charges, including importation or transportation of material for that depicted beastiality.
Now legal ethicists are calling for Kozinski to recuse himself because "the public can reasonably question his objectivity" concerning issues raised in the case, according to The Los Angeles Times, which broke the story.
The images were posted to a portion of the judge's website that could only be accessed if visitors knew the exact address. Kozinski said he had thought the section was reserved for his private storage and didn't know they could be accessed by the public. Then, seeming to contradict himself, he admitted to sharing some of the images on the site with friends. He also said he accidentally loaded the images to the server and had intended to post less controversial material.
Kozinski is a judicial conservative who was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan. In 2001, he and other appeals court judges dismantled software that administrators had installed to prevent court employees from surfing to certain types of websites, including those serving porn. The unauthorized shutdown by the maverick judges affected about a third of the country's federal court system, including more than 700 active and semiretired judges. A bureaucrat who installed the software complained at the time that the move could have resulted in wide-spread security breaches of sensitive judiciary computers.
Federal judges are appointed to life terms and can only be removed by an act of impeachment. Just to be safe, someone pulled the plug on Kozinski's website shortly after news of its racy contents broke. ®
COMMENTS
robots.txt
found it again was:
disallow /jurist-l/
the home pages was/is(?)
Ain't nothin' here.
Y'all best be movin' on, compadre.
and Lewis&Clark directory :
A_Penumbra_Too_Far.pdf
Antihistory_Prehistory_Commercial_Speech.pdf
Case_of_Speluncean_Explorers.pdf
Clerkship-Politics.pdf
Conduct_Unbecoming.pdf
Confessions_of_a_bad_apple.pdf
Death_Ultimate_Run-on_Sentence.pdf
Don't Split.htm
Don't Split_files/ < dir >
Federal_Judge_by_35.pdf
How_I_Narrowly_Run-on_Sentence.pdf
In_Praise_of_Moot_Cout_NOT.pdf
Lawsuit_Shmawsuit.pdf
Original_Meanderings.pdf
Trademarks_unplugged.pdf
/WSJ_Case_of_Punitive_Damages.pdf
WSJ_Privacy_on_Trial.pdf
Who_Gives_A_Hoot_About_Legal_Scholarship.pdf
Whos_Afraid_of_Commerical_Speech.pdf
gorewars.pdf
please_dont_cite.pdf
And underneathmyrobe directroy has had
Georgelarge.jpg
Georgesmall.jpg
I.M.Moose.jpg
cat2.jpg
catterson.nyt.jpg
datinggame.rm < on youtube
george.pdf
myhottie&I.jpg <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< oh yes
snowcountry.jpg <ski mag
snowcountry.pdf
but lately
Cutting the Mustard.jpg
Diddley Squat.jpg
Hawaii.jpg
Juris Dufus.jpg
datinggame.rm
george.pdf
snowcountry.pdf
some of this stuff can be found at
http://notabug.com/kozinski/
bots
funny thing is if you check around he did have a robots.txt file on his site which excluded a legal directory. So he did have a clue.
The other non-excluded directories are legal things or his own Media appearances; one realplayer file of his "The dating game" is on youtube.
BTW the index page has always showed the "move along" message with no links.
@ Andy
Nice. Some ordinary legal documents, some good stuff like the PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg Address, some executables that sound like Trojans (sextetris.exe etc.), some fairly obvious porn (orgasm.wav, the 'Fucking/' directory) in various formats - audio, video, Flash, PowerPoint. Particularly interesting is the 'Larry Craig/' directory. Too bad it doesn't list what's in it.
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