Not Guilty, Says Penis Pump Judge

CREEK COUNTY, OK - Following a preliminary hearing, a judge has found that enough probable cause exists for the trial of former district court judge Donald Thompson to proceed.

Thompson, 59, is charged with four felony counts of indecent exposure for allegedly using a "penis pump" under his judicial robes while adjudicating two murder trials and a civil trial in 2003.

Lisa Foster, a former court reporter for Thompson, was the only witness for that hearing and now Thompson and his attorney are seeking to blocking her testimony, claiming that she was under the influence of drugs when she testified. Foster testified that she had marked her notes every time she witnessed Thompson masturbating with the "penis pump" while he was presiding at trials between 2001 and 2003.

Thompson pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.

During the preliminary hearing. Foster testified that she saw Thompson shave his pubic area during closing arguments in a murder case. She said she didn't report him because she was afraid of losing her job.

She took several Polaroid pictures of the device used by Thompson in March 2001 to show her husband because she wanted people to know "that I was not crazy".

The court reporter said she was afraid to go to police. Only after she was subpoenaed by the state judicial review board did she relate what she had seen and heard in the courtroom and after a penis pump was found in the courtroom by police in September 2003 during an investigation of Thompson.

Thompson was arrested last year. A judge for over 22 years prior to his resignation, Thompson is collecting his $88,000 annual pension but if convicted, the pension would be revoked. Thompson has denied the accusations and says that the pump seized was a gag gift from a friend.

Jurors told police that they heard whooshing noises coming from the bench during the trial proceedings.

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