Ira Isaacs porn case judge posts porn online

[jomar]

You know, the guy who filmed "Two Girls and a Glass" - Yes, that scientific, literary and artistic masterpiece. Well, the judge in the case just might be a fan.



Chief Judge in Obscenity Case Caught Posting Porn

From the blog network:

A top federal judge who is presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles has been caught posting explicit photos and videos to his web site. The judge told the Los Angeles Times that he didn't think the site was publicly accessible.

Alex Kozinski (at right), a conservative appointee of former president Ronald Reagan who is chief of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, posted a photo of naked women standing on all fours and painted to look like cows, as well as a video of a half-naked man with a farm animal. A step-by-step pictorial depicted a woman shaving her pubic hair and other images showed masturbation and what the Times called "contortionist sex..."

 

[Guest]

Contortionist sex?

Oooh.

 

[jomar]

Contortionist sex?

Oooh.

Yes!

*googles*

 

[Anna_Malia75]

You need to be careful of the word "posts," whether you're repeating someone else's story or not. The story I read was a little more careful. Pornographic images were found on his website. A precious distinction? Maybe. One I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of? There ya go.

 

[Guest]

You need to be careful of the word "posts," whether you're repeating someone else's story or not. The story I read was a little more careful. Pornographic images were found on his website. A precious distinction? Maybe. One I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of? There ya go.

This is what I saw.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12judge.html?bl&ex=1213416000&en=68a32d67465b8c74&ei=5087

Chief Judge Contributed to Racy Web Site

By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: June 12, 2008

The chief judge of the federal appeals court in California, Alex Kozinski, has contributed to a Web site that featured sexually explicit materials, The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.

The site, now disabled, included a video showing a sexually aroused animal, a photograph of naked women painted to look like cows and images of masturbation and public sex, The Times reported.

Judge Kozinski, an intellectual powerhouse with a libertarian streak, was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Ronald Reagan and was named its chief judge last year. He is acting as a trial judge in Los Angeles this week, presiding over the trial of a Los Angeles filmmaker accused of distributing obscene materials.

In a telephone interview on Wednesday afternoon, Judge Kozinski would not comment about whether he would disqualify himself from hearing the obscenity case. Later on Wednesday, he suspended the trial to consider the question, The Associated Press reported.

In the interview, he said the Web site was meant to be private and that several people had contributed to it. “There is a ton of stuff on there,” Judge Kozinski said. “It’s not a porn site. There’s some funny stuff on there.”

Judge Kozinski said his son, Yale, maintained the site, which had the domain name of kozinski.com. Yale Kozinski, a film editor, confirmed that, as do Internet registry records for the site.

“This server is my private Web server,” Yale Kozinski said. “It’s owned by me. The domain is registered to me. The people who have access to put files up there are friends and family.” Among other things, he said, the site contained family photos and a collection of the judge’s articles.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Judge Kozinski had conceded posting some of the offensive materials. In interviews on Wednesday, neither Judge Kozinski nor his son could say who posted what, and Judge Kozinski said he might have uploaded some materials by mistake.

The site was never meant to be public, Yale Kozinski said. “The fact that it was publicly accessible actually is my fault, too,” he said. “I made a mistake in configuring it.”

Judge Kozinski said he was only moderately contrite.

“I guess I should be more careful about access and all,” he said. “I didn’t put anything on there I think would be embarrassing.”

 

[jomar]

You need to be careful of the word "posts," whether you're repeating someone else's story or not. The story I read was a little more careful. Pornographic images were found on his website. A precious distinction? Maybe. One I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of? There ya go.

I typed 'allegedly' but when the title posted the word was missing. Perhaps something similar happened to the judge. And perhaps he didn't post his own pictures there, it's true. Too bad for Isaac it came out.

Having said that, some stories write he contributed material. Quit harassing me!
Nice to see you!

 

[S-Des]

They said he had the image(s) on his home computer & web site, but accidentally loaded them onto his office (government) computer. What I just heard was less severe than what the Times reported, so we'll see where the story goes. It is quite an amusing irony, no matter what.