Kafkaesque Moments in Legal History
LA obscenity trial suspended over judge's website
Wed Jun 11, 10:09 PM
By Greg Risling, The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. - 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 website.
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 website.
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.
