Judge masturbates and uses penis pump?

The court reporter for former Tulsa, OK District Judge Donald Thompson testified Monday that she saw his penis "at least 15 times" and that she saw him urinate into a wastebasket twice during trials.

Thompson is on trial on four felony counts of indecent exposure, which allege that he used a penis pump to masturbate while on the bench.

The court reporter, Lisa K. Foster, provided powerful and emotional testimony Monday about the "shocking and disgusting" things she saw from 2001 into 2003. Foster was Thompson's court reporter for 15 years. He fired her in September 2003 for reportedly cooperating with an investigation of his alleged misconduct.

Foster also told jurors that she saw Thompson "shaving his scrotum" during closing arguments in an August 2003 murder trial.
Thompson pulled his penis out of his pants, pulled it close to his body with his left hand, and began shaving his scrotum with a disposable razor. "It wasn't long strokes" with the razor. "He was sort of picking at it," she testified.

She told jurors that she was also sickened when she saw Thompson work his penis pump on himself during tearful testimony from Skyla's grandfather about the last time he saw the child alive.

Foster testified that she first began hearing unusual "shoo-shoo" noises in court in September 2000. She said she heard the same noises again in January or February 2001, and realized then that they were coming from Thompson's bench. Softly sobbing, Foster told jurors that when she looked in the judge's direction, she saw a plastic cylinder over his penis, and his right hand squeezing something that produced the noises.

Clee testified last week that she also saw Thompson's penis during a trial, as did the judge's former bailiff, Zelma Hindman.

Foster said she took three photographs of the penis pump under the judge's bench to show her husband and others in case they thought she might be crazy or lying.

Although she tried to keep what she was seeing to herself, Foster told the court, she did make steno notations of the noises she heard during trials. Those notations appear as repeated "sh, sh" in her steno recordings. The notations were also pegged to audio recordings of some of the trials in which the pump noises were heard.

Foster will be cross-examined Tuesday by the lead defense attorney, Clark Brewster of Tulsa. Article here.