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This is an update to an article, someone posted in this forum previously and I made a total butt of myself by asking what this had to do with illegal immigration forgetting that I was in this forum. One of my most embarrassing moments here at ALIPAC, anyway I figured if someone was interested about it in the first place I might as well post the update I found tonight about this judge.



Judge Gets 4 Years for Exposing Himself




Aug 18, 6:01 PM (ET)

By MURRAY EVANS

(AP) Former Creek County Judge Donald Thompson, left, who was convicted in June of four felony counts of...
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BRISTOW, Okla. (AP) - A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by 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. He showed no reaction when he was sentenced.

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 denied a defense motion asking that Thompson be allowed to remain free pending an appeal. Thompson was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060818/D8JJ3HLO0.html

Nitty,

What does this have to do with illegal immigration?

That is one discusting story.

Did you notice the ad line you also copied?

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Dixie

Dixie, I am embarrassed to say, no I didn't notice, this is why I very seldom post new topics. You are so right about the disgusting part but someone posted the previous article so I thought they might be interested in knowing how Oklahoma took care of this stupid obscene judge!

Nitty,

I really stink at finding news stories. I actually find a good one and by the time I get back to Alipac with it, someone else has posted it.

Dixie

Dixie, I hear you, I am so dumb with this puter, it takes me 2 trips back and forth from article to ALIPAC at the very least to get everything posted. By that time as the streak song says,"to late Ethel"its done been looked at!

By that time as the streak song says,"to late Ethel"its done been looked at!

You're a hoot Nitty.