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Unbelievable (Reuters title, not mine)
Reuters | Mon Oct 20, 9:31 AM ET

Posted on 10/20/2003 10:25:49 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - A French judge was placed under official investigation for "sexual exposure" in a courtroom, prosecutors said on Friday, after a newspaper reported the judge masturbated while a lawyer pleaded her case.

The 39-year old judge masturbated for several minutes on Wednesday while listening to a female lawyer addressing the court in a case dealing with a dispute between neighbors, regional paper La Charente Libre said.

One of the paper's reporters saw the judge "making unambiguous gestures after discretely lifting his judicial robe and opening his trousers," it said.

The judge was temporarily suspended from his professional duties and examined by a psychiatrist, a prosecutor in the southwestern town of Angouleme said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; judge
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1 posted on 10/20/2003 10:25:50 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Even judges have personal lives. Can't we just move on? [nasal whine]
2 posted on 10/20/2003 10:26:47 AM PDT by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
I always wondered why they wore those robes.
3 posted on 10/20/2003 10:27:11 AM PDT by dirtboy (Cure Arnold of groping - throw him into a dark closet with Janet Reno and shut the door.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Ah, ze French.....
4 posted on 10/20/2003 10:28:19 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Fierce Allegiance
She must have been a pretty hot lawyer.
5 posted on 10/20/2003 10:28:28 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Are you familiar with the penal code?
6 posted on 10/20/2003 10:29:10 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Oyez indeed!
7 posted on 10/20/2003 10:29:25 AM PDT by Remole
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To: Fierce Allegiance
All rise for the honorable...
8 posted on 10/20/2003 10:30:59 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: So Cal Rocket
Are you familiar with the penal code?

Nah, this case is covered in the penile code. :=)

9 posted on 10/20/2003 10:32:53 AM PDT by Bob
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To: So Cal Rocket
When they speak of 'beating the rap', that's not what they mean judge! (bad, but hadta)
10 posted on 10/20/2003 10:33:34 AM PDT by BiffWondercat
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To: BiffWondercat
Headline should have been, "Judge suspended for banging his gavel"
11 posted on 10/20/2003 10:35:07 AM PDT by reegs
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   Bordeaux

12 posted on 10/20/2003 10:36:07 AM PDT by Consort
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To: newgeezer
Car jacking ping.
13 posted on 10/20/2003 10:36:31 AM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrisssssssstian)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
"The 39-year old judge masturbated for several minutes on Wednesday while listening to a female lawyer"

Now I know why judges take all those sudden breaks.

14 posted on 10/20/2003 10:36:50 AM PDT by TheCrusader
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Resulted in hung jury
15 posted on 10/20/2003 10:42:48 AM PDT by Ben Chad
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Must have incurred a stiff penalty.
16 posted on 10/20/2003 10:45:57 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: Coop
No need to prosecute--the judge has already done some hard time...
17 posted on 10/20/2003 10:47:31 AM PDT by KansasCanadian (The following comment about the French was removed by the Moderator...)
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To: Dog Gone
She must have been a pretty hot lawyer.

Pictures please?

18 posted on 10/20/2003 10:52:04 AM PDT by frithguild
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To: Fierce Allegiance
This judge really got the shaft.
19 posted on 10/20/2003 10:52:12 AM PDT by jpl
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To: So Cal Rocket
Are you familiar with the penal code?

Obviously this judge has a large enough staff to keep up with all of the changes in French law...

20 posted on 10/20/2003 10:52:27 AM PDT by HenryLeeII
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