Penis Pump Judge Gets Probation For Drunk Driving
Posted on Wednesday, 3 of June , 2009 at 2:32 pm
TULSA, OK—Former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson, known as the penis pump judge, convicted of indecent exposure as a result of masturbating on the bench during trials, has avoided jail time for his drunk driving arrest.
Donald 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.
Records indicate that Thompson’s BAC was 0.11, well over the legal threshold of 0.08
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 disbarred 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.
Thompson was fined $500 and ordered to pay a $50 victims compensation assessment and $50 to the court fund. Prosecutors were not successful in requesting the judge to impose a term of 56 hours of community service
Thompson, married and the father of three adult children, was convicted in September 2006 for using a penis pump while presiding over four trials in 2002 and 2003. He was sentenced to four, one year sentences in state prison, to be served consecutively, and fined $40,000. He is a registered a sex offender with the Oklahoma Corrections Department and the Sapulpa Police Department.
Thompson, a former state legislator, had been a judge for nearly 23 years before he retired in 2004 amidst the allegations. His attorney had admitted that Thompson had purchased another penis pump after a doctor who was treating him for erectile dysfunction and other medical problems had recommended it.
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.
His retirement benefits as a judge had been revoked after he was convicted in 2006. The benefits earned for his tenure as a state legislator are not in dispute.
Thompson had claimed that he didn’t violate his oath of office and that he was entitled to the benefits which amounted to $7,789 a month. 6-3-09
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