Creek County Oklahoma Judge Used Penis Pump on Bench
 

Judge’s ouster sought
2004-06-24
By John Greiner
The Oklahoman


The state attorney general filed a petition Wednesday seeking removal of Sapulpa District Judge Donald D. Thompson for improper conduct, including genital-related acts in court.
Petition for removal

Attorney General Drew Edmondson wrote to the trial division of the state Court on the Judiciary that Thompson’s conduct occurred before court employees.

The petition alleges Thompson, 57, placed himself in a position where his court reporter viewed him on a number of occasions during court proceedings. It also alleges a court reporter saw the judge masturbate on a number of occasions.

The trial division of the state Court on the Judiciary presides over complaints against state judges and has the authority to remove them from office.

Edmondson said he didn’t think information alleged in the ouster petition against Thompson would result in overturning any trials where Thompson presided.

“I think it would take more than what was shown in our petition to upset any of the trial results of that judge. A person seeking to set aside any of those judgments would have to show judicial inattention prejudiced their client,” Edmondson said.

Thompson could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but did deny the allegations during an investigation, Edmondson’s petition stated.

Among witnesses listed in Edmondson’s petition are court personnel and police officers, including the Sapulpa police chief, who were present at a criminal trial in Thompson’s court.

Edmondson said Thompson violated the code of judicial ethics that requires high standards of conduct, promoting public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary and performing duties impartially and diligently including the requirement to be dignified to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers and others.

Edmondson also said Thompson committed an offense involving moral turpitude.

“The actions of Judge Thompson’s in using a penis pump during trial where court personnel, witnesses and juries could either see or hear his actions at the least, constitutes conduct against good morals,” Edmondson’s petition stated. In September 2000, Lisa K. Foster, court reporter for Thompson for 15 years, first started hearing a noise that “sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up,” the petition by Edmondson stated. Foster told investigators she witnessed the judge’s sexual behavior “fifteen to twenty times.”


The judge fired her after hearing she had cooperated with the investigation into his misconduct, Edmondson said.

Thompson admitted the penis pump was under the bench during a criminal trial on Aug. 22, 2003, and at other times but denied using the pump, Edmondson’s petition stated.

“He testified the pump was a gag gift from a friend,” the petition stated.

Other witnesses listed in Edmondson’s petition are Sapulpa Police Chief James Wall, Capt. William Brant Green of the Sapulpa Police Department and Sergeant Michael Reed of the Sapulpa Police Department, who were in the judge’s court during a criminal trial in 2003.

Thompson served six years in the state House of Representatives starting in 1975.

Link to the Petition

(actually read the petition filed in court to get him removed, it's hilarious)

Okay, even if the penis pump was a gag gift, why on earth would you keep it with you on the bench???

Read the petition. It alleges that he USED it on the bench during jury trials, hearings, everything. There's a secretary that testified that in taking out his trash, she had seen urine and semen in the trashcan.

The guy is in major need of therapy.

I read the petition and it's disgusting.
But his explination for having the pump is that it was a gag gift.
Which I don't buy, but let's say it was a gag gift, and the secretary was lying about him actually using it on the bench, why on earth would he keep it there?
Basically I feel his explination is lame.

weird

The secretary removing semen from the trash can, the police officer that took a picture of it, and the chief of police (among others) that heard the pump squishing sound during court seem to point to his explanation being extremely lame.

He will not only be kicked off the bench, he'll most likely be disbarred over this one. What a sicko though.

That's absolutely ridiculous...I'm cracking up in the middle of my office.

(probably not the right place to read this whole thing)

eek...
can you just imagine if you lost a case before him? were the facts wrong or did the pump run out of batteries that day so he was crabby.

That's one of the things folks are worried about. Everyone that's ever lost in front of him is probably going to come back and call it a mistrial. It's going to cost the state a lot of money if he's convicted.

I think I'm slap happy but everytime I see the title of this it makes me laugh. That and think of the first Austin Powers movie.

All rise for the honorable judge. :)

I know I'd be naked under the robe...but a penis pump is just over the top. Come on. Common sense. People, people.

-Rudey

I went to a brother's wedding last weekend in front of the Creek County courthouse. It's a not a small town, but it's very umm provincial.

--- I'll bet there are tons of meth labs in Sapulpa.

It's His Bag, Baby!