Grounds For An Appeal

I’m speechless.

The Smoking Gun – While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. According to the below complaint filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General, Donald D. Thompson, 57, was caught in the act by a clerk, trial witnesses, and his longtime court reporter (these unsettling first-hand accounts will make you wonder what’s going on under other black robes). Visitors to Thompson’s Creek County courtroom reported hearing a “swooshing” sound coming from the bench, a noise the court reporter said “sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up.” Thompson, the complaint charges, even pumped himself up during an August 2003 murder trial. The AG’s petition quotes Thompson (pictured above) as admitting that the pump was “under the bench” during the murder case (and at other times), but he denied using the item, which was supposedly a “gag gift from a friend.”

Click on the Smoking Gun link to see the actual documents. Read the entire thing for maximum comedic effect.
My question is, how was he able to do all this stuff, including trimming his pubic hair and using a penis pump, during trial for four years with nobody noticing? Were the lawyers too afraid of challenging this judge or what?
And can you imagine the mess of appeals that are going to take place shortly? Every party who got a ruling they didn’t like in front of this judge is going to appeal based on his possible misconduct during their trial.
All because this guy couldn’t leave his winky alone while he was at work. Nice work, Judge Thompson.