[mr.miyagi]

September 27, 2005

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/ ... click=true

A judge is to stand trial for allegedly masturbating with a "penis pump" during a murder case.

Witnesses claim they could hear the noise coming from beneath the robes of Donald Thompson as he sat on the bench. The judge, 58, had served at Creek County Court, Oklahoma, where he was charged, for 22 years.

The sex toy will be presented as evidence. The court has also permitted testimony that a second pump was seen under Thompson's bench. Thompson faces 10 years in prison and a $20,000 ($A26,000) fine for each offence of indecent exposure. 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 saw Thompson making some movement "with his upper body and arms", according to documents filed by the state attorney-general in Oklahoma.

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