WTF! Judge exposes himself during trials

[jhayx7]

Associated Press
Judge Gets 4 Years for Exposing Himself
By MURRAY EVANS , 08.18.2006, 01:51 PM

A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials and accused of 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.

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.

Thompson, a married father of three grown children, testified that the penis 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.

Judge C. Allen McCall was considering arguments on whether Thompson should be allowed to remain free pending appeal. Thompson was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine.

Wow...just...wow..

 

[waggy]

ain't this old?

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: waggy
ain't this old?

Aye, I guess this is the verdict followup.

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: waggy
ain't this old?

thats what I thought

 

[confused1234]

PICS lol id pay to see a judge go streaking in a court room.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: waggy
ain't this old?

thats what I thought

Old as DIRT!

 

[lozina]

i'd have a totally different reaction if this judge was a hot woman

 

[acemcmac]

ouch

 

[jhayx7]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: waggy
ain't this old?

thats what I thought

Old as DIRT!

Sorry guys, first I ever heard of it..

 

[Kyanzes]

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

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

That's just beyond strange...

 

[Kyanzes]

And what about all the people who got convicted by him? How can anyone believe that such a mentally ill person could have reached unpartial and sane verdicts?

 

[ballmode]

must have been bored

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
And what about all the people who got convicted by him? How can anyone believe that such a mentally ill person could have reached unpartial and sane verdicts?

I was going to post the same thing.

 

[randay]

Are you saying that every judge who owns a penis pump and uses it to masturbate during trials and then denies it ever happened even though you can hear whooshing sounds and see semen all over his chair and robes is mentally ill? thats rediculous!

 

[Sqube]

He's gonna learn a lot about pumping penises in prison. Especially seeing as he was a judge.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

4-yr sentence for this?

Child molesters get less time:roll:

 

[Fox5]

You can use a penis pump to masturbate?

 

[Eeezee]

I hadn't seen it before either

That sentence time is ridiculous. Isn't the fine + removal from the bench enough? Just don't let him be a judge anymore. Going to jail for "rehabilitation" is stupid because he won't be a judge anyway.

 

[mooncancook]

that's real old, maybe the 4 yr sentence part is new.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Sorry guys, first I ever heard of it..

Tsk Tsk Tsk

Now you've gone and activated all the nerds saying, 'rehash!' 'rehash!'

There is no room for normal people on these forums.

Adios ATOT

 

[Caecus Veritas]

i did not have sexual relations with that pump..

 

[thomsbrain]

what? i do that all the time at work.

 

[confused1234]

rehash!

 

[thejackal1]

I would love to have that job.