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Posted 8/18/2006 2:50 PM ET US Today

Former Oklahoma district judge Donald Thompson, shown in this June 29 photo, was found guilty on four counts of indecent exposure. The jury recommended a sentence of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine on each count..
BRISTOW, Okla. (AP) — A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
Donald Thompson had spent almost 23 years on the bench and had served as a state legislator before retiring from the court in 2004. He showed no reaction when he was sentenced.

At his trial this summer, his former court reporter, Lisa Foster, testified that she saw Thompson expose himself at least 15 times during trial between 2001 and 2003. Prosecutors said he also used a device known as a penis pump during at least four trials in the same period.

Thompson, 59, was convicted last month of four felony courts of indecent exposure for incidents that took place in his Creek County courtroom.

Thompson, a married father of three grown children, testified that the penis pump was given to him as a joke by a longtime hunting and fishing buddy.

"It wasn't something I was hiding," he said.

He said he may have absentmindedly squeezed the pump's handle during court cases but never used it to masturbate.

Foster told authorities that she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. A whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he hadn't heard it but would listen for it.

Police built a case against the judge after a police officer testifying in a 2003 murder trial 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 checked the carpet, Thompson's robes and the chair behind the bench and found semen, according to court records.

Carmelia Brossett, a senior probation officer for the state Department of Corrections, said in a presentencing report that Thompson refused to undergo psychosexual testing.

"Thompson's denial of the offense would likely present difficulty, if not inability for treatment providers to provide meaningful and beneficial sex-offender treatment," she said.

The jury recommended a sentence of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine on each count. The jury foreman has said it was the jury's intent that Thompson serve the full sentence.

Judge C. Allen McCall denied a defense motion asking that Thompson be allowed to remain free pending an appeal. Thompson was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine.

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核心提示：美国一名前法官多纳德.汤普森近日被控在主持陪审团判决时，在长袍下使用助勃器而被判四年徒刑。他的书记作证称汤普森在2001到2003年间，至少有15次以上在开庭时公然使用助勃器。汤普森曾称在庭上使用助勃器时并无任何歪念，辩称绝对没用它来手淫。

　　　中新网8月3日电 法官是公认非常严肃、神圣的职业，容不得半点亵渎。但据台湾《中国时报》援引美联社报道称，美国一名前法官多纳德.汤普森近日被控在主持陪审团判决时，竟然在长袍下使用助勃器，因而被判处四年徒刑。

　　汤普森的前法院书记官丽莎.波斯特出庭作证称，她看见汤普森在2001到2003年间，至少有15次以上在开庭时公然使用助勃器。原告则说，他在同一段时间内，也看到汤普森至少在四场重罪审判上公然使用助勃器。2003年，警方在汤普森的审判庭上搜查，赫然发现他放在桌子下的助勃器和法官席上的一些精液。

　　被告汤普森今年59岁，已婚，并育有三子，上月以在四场重罪刑事庭上公然猥亵暴露而被判刑。判决前，汤普森拒绝接受性心理测验。据了解，他被判一场刑事庭的猥亵行为一年徒刑，并课以一万美元罚款，他必须为这四场行为而蹲上四年苦牢，并付出四万美元的代价。

　　汤普森当了23年的法官，并在2004年自法官席退休前当上州议员。他曾说：“我没什么好藏的。”并表示在庭上使用助勃器时并无任何歪念，辩称绝对没用它来手淫。在判决后，他并无任何回应