Posted on 07/14/2004 6:18:36 AM PDT by buffyt
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma's attorney general wants a state judge removed on suspicion he frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections while his court was in session, a spokesman for the office said on Thursday.
Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed a petition on Wednesday with state judicial authorities seeking the removal of Sapulpa District Judge Donald Thompson, 57, for "conduct constituting an offense involving moral turpitude in violation of the Oklahoma Constitution."
Thompson was not immediately available for comment. The judge, elected to the bench 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.
His picture looks like his pump is pumped up a little high...
What, this is unusual? I thought they all did it...
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "full extent of the law"...
this is just so wrong!
I hear they call him "maximum Don" and he has a reputation for giving hard sentences.
I am sure that all of the evidence will be found in the Judge's Briefs.
He was just practicing safe sex.
Liberal family values.Yuck."the Party of Filth"bump
Is the courtroom really the appropriate place to air differences?
"Baliff, whack his pee-pee!"
That judge looks like the protagonist in Eraserhead.
(steely)
Objec-jec-jec-tionnnnnn over-ru-ru-ruuuuulllllled.
This is worthy of Bill Clinton.
You can't even make this stuff up anymore.
This whole story is incredible. And when interviewed on television, the ladies making the charges seem VERY credible.
Prosecutor: One Swedish-made penis enlarger.
Thompson: [looking surprised] That's not mine.
Prosecutor: One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis enlarger signed by Donald Thompson.
Thompson: I'm telling ya baby, that's not mine.
Prosecutor: One warranty card for Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, filled out by Donald Thompson.
Thompson: I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby.
Prosecutor: One book, "Swedish-made Penis Enlargers And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby", by Donald Thompson.
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They got suspicious when the judge started wearing 'see-through' robes.
This is all a Democrat conspiracy. Edmondson is obviously inflating these charges.
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