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Judge Kozinski admonished for explicit items on Web site - CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A judicial council on Thursday admonished the chief judge of the nation's largest federal appeals court for having "sexually explicit photos and videos" on his personal Web site, but decided against any further punishment.
The panel chose not to discipline Judge Alex Kozinski beyond the admonishment.
Judge Alex Kozinski, 58, of the San Francisco, California-based 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals previously apologized and had recommended an investigation because of the public controversy over the material.
A panel of judges assigned to investigate concluded Kozinski's "possession of sexually explicit offensive material combined with his carelessness in failing to safeguard his sphere of privacy was judicially imprudent." His actions, the panel wrote, "can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the institution of the federal judiciary."
That's putting it mildly. This was really disturbing and I'll spare you the details. The CNN article doesn't play up his conservatism too much but you can expect more reference to conservative hypocrisy as this cycles through the tubes of the internet.
