Published: Thursday, July 2, 2009
Peers admonish federal judge over Web sex files
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in California who made sexually explicit material available on his own Web site has been cleared with an admonishment by fellow judges.
The panel says Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was “careless” and “judicially imprudent” in not safeguarding his files.
The 41-page decision is being made public today by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court in Philadelphia, which was asked to investigate the judge.
The panel says Kozinski embarrassed the federal judiciary.
However, the judges say the matter should end with the admonishment, combined with Kozinski’s apology and other unspecified “corrective action.”
The panel says Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was “careless” and “judicially imprudent” in not safeguarding his files.
The 41-page decision is being made public today by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court in Philadelphia, which was asked to investigate the judge.
The panel says Kozinski embarrassed the federal judiciary.
However, the judges say the matter should end with the admonishment, combined with Kozinski’s apology and other unspecified “corrective action.”
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