Contempt of Court: US Chief Judge caught posting on explicit site

A serious bit of misjudgment on the part of California federal appeals court Chief Judge, Alex Kozinski, has left him red in the face. Kozinski, who came to be chosen as a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by US President Ronald Reagan himself, was accused of having personally contributed to an explicit web site, featuring materials that may comfortably be called pornographic.

Kozinski.com, the site in question (which has hastily been put out of action after Kozinski’s ‘close association’ with it was exposed publicly) included the video of what appeared to be a fiercely aroused animal, various unambiguous images of men masturbating and a picture of a nude woman curiously painted to appear like a cow!

Kozinski’s astounding reputation as an ‘intellectual powerhouse’ makes him an unlikely candidate for a porn scandal. He was named the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit only last year. Ironically enough he is presently acting as a trial judge in an LA case concerning a filmmaker charged with the dissemination of x-rated items!

In an interview over the phone judge Kozinski is said to have vehemently denied the pornographic contents of the site. “There is a ton of stuff on there,” he insisted “It’s not a porn site. There’s some funny stuff on there.”

Kozinski also claimed that his son, Yale Kozinski, who seems to be interested in film editing, is the owner of the site. Both Yale and the Internet registry records for the site have confirmed the judge’s claims.

On questioning Judge Kozinski is said to have conceded uploading the materials in question on the site. Reluctantly, he later added that he might have unknowingly uploaded some of the items on the site ‘by mistake’.

The Kozinski’s however are fervently defending the Judge’s cause. “This server is my private Web server,” asserted Yale Kozinski. “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.” He claimed the site was never meant for public viewing and included family memorabilia’s such as photos and a carefully assorted collection of various articles written by the Judge down the years. The only reason regular Internet traffic could access the site was because he had made a blunder while configuring it, Yale said.