Just when you think you heard it all . . .

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  • sandy
    sandy

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18/judge.sentenced.ap/index.html


    Judge jailed for exposing himself during trials

    Friday, August 18, 2006; Posted: 4:49 p.m. EDT (20:49 GMT)

    BRISTOW, Oklahoma (AP) -- A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

    Donald Thompson had spent almost 23 years on the bench and had served as a state legislator before retiring from the court in 2004. He showed no reaction when he was sentenced.

    At his trial this summer, his former court reporter, Lisa Foster, testified that she saw Thompson expose himself at least 15 times during trial between 2001 and 2003. Prosecutors said he also used a device known as a penis pump during at least four trials in the same period.

    Thompson, 59, was convicted last month of four felony courts of indecent exposure for incidents that took place in his Creek County courtroom.

    Judge C. Allen McCall denied a defense motion asking that Thompson be allowed to remain free pending an appeal. Thompson also was ordered to pay a $40,000 fine.

    Thompson, a married father of three grown children, testified that the pump was given to him as a joke by a longtime hunting and fishing buddy.

    "It wasn't something I was hiding," he said.

    He said he may have absentmindedly squeezed the pump's handle during court cases but never used it to masturbate.

    Foster told authorities that she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. A whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he hadn't heard it but would listen for it.

    Police built a case against the judge after a police officer testifying in a 2003 murder trial saw a piece of plastic tubing disappear under Thompson's robe. During a lunch break, officers took photographs of the pump under the desk.

    Investigators later checked the carpet, Thompson's robes and the chair behind the bench and found semen, according to court records.

    Carmelia Brossett, a senior probation officer for the state Department of Corrections, said in a presentencing report that Thompson refused to undergo psychosexual testing.

    "Thompson's denial of the offense would likely present difficulty, if not inability for treatment providers to provide meaningful and beneficial sex-offender treatment," she said.

    The jury recommended a sentence of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine on each count. The jury foreman has said it was the jury's intent that Thompson serve the full sentence.

    Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

  • Gregor
    Gregor

    This explains why old Judge Sticky pants was banging the gavel and calling for order in the court at inappropriate times.

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    he must have been bored out of his pants to do that !!!!!!

  • DanTheMan
    DanTheMan

    "Order..*ahhh*...Order in the *ohhh!* Order in the Court!"

  • Sunspot
    Sunspot

    I was watching COURTV this afternoon and saw this crawler. I had no idea what this "sexual device" could have been......and now I know.

    Who says this board isn't educational?????

    (gasp!)

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    OH, I mean bored stiff.!!!!!!

  • Sunspot
    Sunspot
    OH, I mean bored stiff.!!!!!!

    Well......only for a short time..... then his "interest" most likely petered out......

    Annie.....of the "I can't believe I just said that" class......

  • juni
    juni


    Gregor - very funny!!

    Dan the man - good one too!

    Annie - You go girl! How are you feeling now?

    Juni

  • Frannie Banannie
    Frannie Banannie

    LMAO! You peeps are SO FUNNY! Yall should do commentary on "news of the weird."

  • Sunspot
    Sunspot
    Annie - You go girl! How are you feeling now?

    Obviously.....a bit spunkier than I HAVE been! (LOL!)

    Thanks for asking!

    hugs,

    Annie

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