East Coast panel to oversee misconduct probe of California Judge Alex Kozinski
A panel of federal judges on the East Coast is to oversee a misconduct probe into California Judge Alex Kozinski, who declared a mistrial in an obscenity case he was presiding over last week after acknowledging that he had posted sexually explicit material on his publicly accessible personal website.
Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, requested the investigation after an article in The Times described the website and its contents. Kozinski asked that the matter be handled by judges outside his judicial circuit.
U.S. Chief Judge John G. Roberts Jr. transferred the matter to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and the chief judge there appointed a special committee to investigate.
scott.glover@latimes.com
