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Judge Suspected of Masturbating in Court
(submitted by gekkogecko)
Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma state judge
frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing
erections while his court was in session, charges a
petition by the state's attorney general seeking his
removal.
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed the
petition on Wednesday with state judicial authorities
seeking the ouster of Sapulpa District Judge Donald
Thompson, 57, for "conduct constituting an offense
involving moral turpitude in violation of the Oklahoma
Constitution," Edmondson's spokesman said on Thursday.
The judge flatly denies the charges made in the
petition, his lawyer, Clark Brewster, said on
Thursday. He said the judge received a penis pump for
his 50th birthday as a gag gift, which became a source
of a running joke in the courthouse.
"The allegations are bizarre and preposterous,"
Brewster said. "Recently, some members of local law
enforcement that are upset with a number of his
rulings, used this situation to embarrass and attack
him."
The judge, who was first elected to the bench more
than 20 years ago in the state's nonpartisan judicial
elections, is based about 80 miles northeast of
Oklahoma City.
In the petition, the attorney general charged Thompson
used a penis pump, a device billed as providing sexual
pleasure and promising better erections and larger
penis size, during trials and exposed himself to a
court reporter several times while masturbating on the
bench.
"On one occasion, Ms. (Lisa) Foster (Thompson's court
reporter for 15 years), saw Judge Thompson holding his
penis up and shaving underneath it with a disposable
razor while on the bench," the petition reads.
Several witnesses, including jurors in Thompson's
court and police officers called to testify in trials,
said in the petition they heard the "swooshing" sound
of a penis pump during trials and saw the judge
slumped in his chair, with his elbows on his knees,
working the device. The witnesses said the pump
sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up.
According to the petition, Thompson admitted he had a
penis pump under the bench during a murder trial but
he told investigators it was a gag gift from a friend.
The petition also charges Thompson with firing his
former court reporter after she cooperated with investigators.
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