Posted on 09/28/2005 7:05:57 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
Judge used 'penis pump' during murder case
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A US judge will go on trial today charged with three counts of indecent exposure after allegedly masturbating using a “penis pump” while presiding over a murder case. Witnesses claim they could hear the noise of the device coming from beneath the robes of Donald Thompson as he sat on the bench. The 58-year-old former district judge had served at Creek County Court, Oklahoma, where he was charged, for 22 years. The sex toy will be presented as evidence during the trial. The court has also permitted testimony that a second pump was seen under Judge Thompson’s bench, despite his lawyers’ attempts to get the evidence barred. Thompson faces 10 years in prison and a £11,000 (20,000 dollar) fine for each offence. If convicted he would also have to register as a sex offender when released from prison. He is accused of using the pump during two murder trials and a civil case in 2003. Jurors claim they heard what sounded like a bicycle pump or blood-pressure pump. One “heard ’a swooshing kind of air, like kind of ch, ch’ and saw Thompson making some movement with his upper body and arms“, according to documents filed by the state attorney general. Court reporter Lisa Foster told authorities she saw the bespectacled judge attach and use the device almost daily during one trial, and that the sounds could be heard on the tape she made. She claims she made notes when she saw Thompson using the pump during that trial and another first-degree murder trial in August 2003. The bizarre events were also witnessed by police officers giving evidence, the papers say. According to an affidavit, a court-ordered DNA sample confirms the fluids found in his old courtroom and office were semen. Judge C Allen McCall has not yet decided whether jurors will get to hear Ms Foster’s audio recording. Thompson claims the pump was just a joke gift from a friend. Both sides will begin quizzing a 350-member jury pool at the Oklahoma court today. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. |
LOL, that's too funny! And eeeeeewwwww.
This was a Democrat judge.
Probably a Judge Learned Hand admirer.
"Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep "
I think this is the funniest thread I have ever read!
"Well, you can carry a bucket,
You can carry a grudge,
But you can't carry on,
'Cause here COME da judge!"
I have noticed that many times these interesting, off beat items appear at FR and then the next day appear in the print media, usually diseminated by AP. I wonder if AP monitors this site to gauge the degree of interest in any article. I just checked my original posting and there have been 1,429 views thus far. Let's see if it shows up in print. Nice to see the Smoking Gun carried it.
Thanks to all FReepers for the very funny comments associated with this gripping tale.
I'd have to see Lisa Foster first.
Hey, if I had a job where I could wear robes all day I might be tempted to see what I could get away with, too.
Earlier stories here:
Okla. Judge's Career Ended by Allegations (UPDATE: (Penis Pumping OK Judge))
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339315/posts
Ex-judge charged over penis-pump incident (Suspect a Registered Democrat)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1325667/posts
Oklahoma's Penis Pump Judge hit with 3 felonies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325314/posts
Laz has been pinged 3 times (4 now) and still isn't here. I figure he must have decided to conduct exhaustive research before commenting.
Or Felix Frankfurter.
EWW! I Hope they wash it first.
My name is Master Richard Bates...
You men may call me Master Bates
You ladies can call me "Dick".
(shamelessly stolen fron His Majesty's Feast, a Renaissance-type dinner theater I enjoyed in Toronto maybe 15 years ago...
When asked why a motion was taking a long time to be ruled on, the Judge cried "Ahhh! I have the solution in hand!"
If he don't stop that, justice'll go blind.
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