Rise and Fall of Oklahoma Judge

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Just when you think you have heard it all, this tale of a sordid life is a bit of a shocker:

 

Okla. Judge's Career Ended by Allegations

By JULIE E. BISBEE, Associated Press Writer

 

Tuesday, February 8, 2005

 

 

2-08) 16:32 PST Oklahoma City, OK (AP) --

 

 

Jurors and others in Judge Donald Thompson's courtroom kept hearing a strange whooshing noise, like a bicycle pump or maybe a blood pressure cuff. During one trial, Thompson seemed so distracted that some jurors thought he was playing a hand-held video game or tying fly-fishing lures behind the bench.

 

 

The explanation, investigators say, is even stranger than some imagined: The judge had a habit of masturbating with a penis pump under his robe during trials.

 

 

The lurid allegations have led to criminal charges against Thompson, brought an embarrassing end to a solid career and shocked many of his colleagues. The case could also lead to a wave of appeals from defendants claiming that the judge was not paying attention while presiding over their cases.

 

 

Thompson, a 58-year-old married father of three grown children, has denied the allegations, and said the pump was just a gag gift received from a hunting buddy on his 50th birthday. He retired in August after being threatened with removal from the bench, but still faces indecent-exposure charges brought against him last month.

 

 

"We're certainly saddened by the thought that the prosecutor filed charges," said Clark Brewster, Thompson's attorney. "We thought all this was dealt with when he resigned. We didn't feel like anything that was alleged rose to the level of criminal charges."

 

 

The trials during which he allegedly used the pump included murder cases as well as a libel suit in which a jury ordered the company that publishes The Oklahoman, a Web site and a TV station to pay $3.7 million.

 

 

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who filed the paperwork to remove Thompson from the bench, said he would be surprised if the scandal did not lead to appeals. But he said: "I don't know if they will be successful. They will still have to show actual prejudice to the point that something was done in error."

 

 

Jim Wall, police chief in the small town of Sapulpa, said he had heard rumors of the judge's behind-the-bench activities for about a month, but added: "You've got the most powerful man in Creek County, and I think a lot people were intimidated by him."

 

 

Police built a case against the judge after one of Wall's officers testified during a 2003 murder trial. From the witness stand, the officer 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 collected carpet samples, Thompson's robes and the chair from behind the bench, and found semen, according to court records.

 

 

A former state legislator and a judge with more than 20 years on the bench in Creek County in eastern Oklahoma, Thompson was well-liked in the community and had helped many young prosecutors and judges learn their jobs. But those who know him said he had become withdrawn in the past few years.

 

 

Thompson's court reporter, Lisa Foster, told authorities that she saw him use the pump at least 10 times during trials. She said the first time in court was in 2000, but she did not tell authorities. "I didn't want to be found dead in a ditch somewhere," she told The Associated Press.

 

Foster told authorities she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of Kurt Vomberg, a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. The case ended in a hung jury. The whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial.

 

When jurors at the trial asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he hadn't heard it, but would listen for it.

 

Foster and a bailiff were fired by Thompson after giving statements against him.

 

"I always thought he was an excellent trial judge," said Don I. Nelson, who tried more than 40 cases before Thompson as the prosecutor assigned to his court.

 

Nelson handled a murder trial during which authorities say Thompson used the pump. The jury ended up convicting the defendant on the lesser charge of manslaughter.

 

"I never heard anything that was going on," Nelson said. "I was completely shocked and couldn't believe it."

[+ deej]

It was equally shocking when it was posted here in June '04. ;-)

 

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[Flower]

Several years ago when I was in a DA's office in Southern California, just starting out and prosecuting misdemeanors, I was prosecuting a conspiracy to solicit and solicitation of prostitution case against several bars, hookers and their johns (as clearly distinguished from escorts and their clients) -- anyway, the undercover (so to speak) tapes came into evidence and several times during the trial the judge would get glassy eyed and excuse himself and run back to chambers, and a toilet would flush immediately--too quick for him to be taking a wizz, but just enough time to lift the lid and toss in a kleenex and flush. He'd return to the court room seemingly in a happier mood--the speculation was that he was jo under his robes:+

[+ Lucky]

Deej, sweetie, how could it be EQUALLY as shocking now if you had already heard of it???

[+ Lucky]

RE: Tom "Sizemore"

 

You just don't need to make this stuff up!

 

Actor Tom Sizemore Fails Drug Test with Fake Penis

By REUTERS

 

Published: February 11, 2005

 

 

Filed at 6:34 p.m. ET

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Tom Sizemore has been jailed for violating his probation by failing a drug test after he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results, a Los Angeles County prosecutor said on Friday.

 

Sizemore, 43, who played a battle-hardened sergeant in the war movie ``Saving Private Ryan,'' was placed in custody on Thursday. He was ordered to remain behind bars until a hearing on Feb. 24, unless he posts $25,000 bond, Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney said.

 

Last month, Judge Antonio Baretto had agreed to allow Sizemore to travel to Cambodia to shoot a new film on condition that he pass a drug test every day prior to his departure.

 

Carney said the actor's failed attempt to fake his drug test results came on the first day of the new requirement.

 

The actor is required to undergo random drug tests as a condition of probation for his convictions on separate charges of methamphetamine possession and beating his ex-girlfriend, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.

 

During Thursday's proceedings, prosecutors told Judge Baretto that Sizemore failed three drug tests in three days, the first after he was caught using a fake penis sewn into his boxer shorts and filled with a clean urine sample kept warm by a heating pack.

 

Carney said the ruse was revealed when the temperature of the sample proved too cool to have come from Sizemore's body, and he was asked to remove his pants.

 

According to prosecutors, Sizemore had been caught once before trying to use a similar device, sold over the Internet under the brand name the Whizzinator, and had failed drug tests on at least five occasions.

 

Carney said two drug tests on the days following the fake penis incident showed Sizemore had methamphetamine in his system.

 

During the hearing, Sizemore's lawyer told the court that his client was destitute, living in a garage in Whittier, California, and that he was an expectant father, Carney told Reuters.

 

But Baretto told Sizemore that his drug use was ``out of control,'' adding, ``I had hoped and wanted to see a positive performance.''

[OneFinger]

RE: Tom "Sizemore"

 

And how is this related to the Oklahoma judge? Maybe I'm dense but I fail to see the correlation.

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RE: Tom "Sizemore"

 

Penises, Finger, penises! It didn't deserve its own thread!