North County GazetteTULSA, OK—Former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson, known as “the penis pump judge,” has avoided jail time for his drunk driving arrest.
In case you missed the former press coverage of Hiz Honor, he was accused by prosecutors of, among other things, using a penis pump while on the bench presiding over criminal trials. Lawyers trying cases in front of the judge testified at the trial on charges that he exposed his (pumped up) penis to a laterally situated (and not concealed to the bench) female court reporter.
The pump use, they claimed, was revealed by the telltale hiss the pump made when the vacuum was released as well as the fact that after a recess, a curious prosecutor found a penis pump under the bench. The court reporter also testified that the judge exposed his penis to her while on the bench.
Despite producing an MD’s prescription for said penis pump, Hiz Honor went down like a submarine, and was sentenced to four years in the joint.
Thompson, 62, was arrested last Dec. 5 by an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper about 3 a.m. According to a police report, the trooper came upon a vehicle that was stopped on the outside shoulder of the Creek Turnpike. The car had a flat tire and damage to the driver’s side.
According to the report, the trooper said that the driver, identified as Thompson, had slurred speech, bloodshot eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. Thompson told the officer that he didn’t know how the car had sustained damage. It was later determined that Thompson had struck a wall.
No word as of yet on whether the former jurist was trying to inflate the flat tire on his vehicle with a penis pump.
Thompson had been released from state prison in April, 2008 after serving 20 months of a four year sentence after being convicted of four counts of indecent exposure. He was defrocked as an attorney in September 2008.
Special Judge Carlos Chappelle found Thompson guilty Tuesday of having physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, a misdemeanor. Thompson had waived his right to a trial and entered a no-contest plea. The judge sentenced Thompson to a year of probation and no jail time.
A court ruled in February that Thompson must forfeit the portion of his pension that he had realized from his judicial service.
The Oklahoma Pubic Employees Retirement System Board of Trusts unanimously accepted an administrative hearing examiner’s decision that Thompson violated his oath of judicial office when he was convicted in 2006.
Thompson was, however, allowed to retain his retirement salary as a state legislator—where he served before becoming a judge. He was also (apparently) allowed to keep his penis pump.
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