BRISTOW -- Former Creek County [OK] District Judge Donald Thompson was convicted on each of four counts of indecent exposure Thursday night and was sentenced to a year in prison plus a $10,000 fine on each of the charges.
Jurors deliberated about 5-1/2 hours and returned their verdicts shortly after 9 p.m., bringing an end to a trial that has lasted nearly three weeks and saw an onslaught of witnesses, among them some of Thompson's former jurors, court personnel and law enforcement officers, testifying against the former judge.
The charges alleged that Thompson exposed himself by using a penis pump to masturbate during trials in his Sapulpa courtroom.
Thompson, who has been free on bond, will be formally sentenced on Aug. 14.
After the verdicts were returned, District Judge Charles Allen McCall remanded Thompson to the Creek County sheriff's custody and set a new bail at $75,000. Thompson was ordered to surrender his passport and not to leave Creek County other than to visit his attorneys in Tulsa.
I will miss this story . . . . Details here from TulsaWorld.com. My earlier posts about Judge Thompson can be accessed here.