Posted on 06/12/2008 5:40:15 AM PDT by zek157
(AP) Judge Alex Kozinski, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, gestures as Chief Judge Mary...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Alex Kozinski is more accustomed to appearing on lists to fill U.S. Supreme Court vacancies than headlines involving pornographic scandals.
But on Wednesday, the chief judge of the country's largest federal appeals court was forced to suspend an obscenity trial he was presiding over after sexually explicit images posted to his personal Web site became public.
The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site that Kozinski had posted sexual material on his personal Web site and then blocked access after being interviewed about it Tuesday evening.
Kozinski, 57, told the Times he thought the material on his site, which included a video of a man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal, couldn't be seen by the public. The judge said he didn't believe any of the images were obscene.
(AP) Ira Isaacs, left, with his attorney Roger Jon Diamond, poses outside the Federal Courthouse... Full Image
"Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he told the newspaper. "I think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."
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Baaaaaaaa.
No wonder he was having difficulty seating a jury. The ‘ol pervert couldn’t find enough fellow-travellers to assure the “proper” verdict”.
More like a plea for fire and brimstone...
I recall somewhat vaguely how the Democrats tried to block this judge’s confirmation, but conservatives rallied strongly behind him. “All that glitters is not gold”, as Shakespeare wrote where?
Merchant of Venice.....what do I win?
Got one already...oh well, guess you can’t have too many.
Right. And the dog ate my homework.
Hey, it's San Francisco. What were you expecting...Nancy Pelosi?
Brewing beer is an intellectual endeavor involving scientific principles of microbiology and metabolic fermentation.
Guinness hired some students from Oxford to help them with the “brainy” side of brewing beer. A particularly bright student was given the task of figuring out how to tell a “bad” or “off” batch of Guinness from a “good” or “regular” batch.
He came up with the mathematical “Student's t test” to determine statistical significance. Each batch of Guinness is different, but is it SIGNIFICANTLY different? If it is then they get rid of it.
The Students t test is used every day by Science to determine that just because group A got a higher response than group B, was it a SIGNIFICANTLY higher response?
No big surprise — It is not for nothing that this court is referred to in legal circles as “The 9th Circus Court of Appeals” for the wackiness of so many of it’s rulings.
Very interesting! I think I learned something about that in my college statistics courses.
WTF? He posted this stuff to HIS WEB SITE and didn't think that people would be able to see it??
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