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Penis Pump Judge Gets Trial Delay

CREEK COUNTY, OKLA-The trial of an Oklahoma judge, charged with three counts of indecent exposure while allegedly using a "penis pump" under his judicial robes while adjudicating two murder trials and a civil trial in 2003, has won yet another delay in his trial when a special judge recused himself.A preliminary hearing in the case against former district judge Donald Thompson, 58, was scheduled to be heard Friday but was postponed after Thompson's lawyers questioned a conversation the trial judge, Craig County associate district judge Gary Maxey, had allegedly had with a potential witness in the Thompson case. Defense attorneys asked for Maxey's recusal because of a conversation he had had with the legal counsel for the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints which investigated Thompson. Maxey said that although he thought he could have been impartial in the case, he was required to recuse himself by the Code of Judicial Conduct. Another judge will have to be appointed before the case can proceed. Earlier this month, Thompson was charged with additional counts of indecent exposure and misuse of a state computer.The case had been postponed in September because a judge who had previously recused himself in the case then participated in the jury selection. Thompson was arrested last year. A judge for over 22 years prior to his resignation last year, Thompson could face up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine on each felony count and would have to register as a sex offender. Thompson has denied the accusations and says that the pump seized was a gag gift from a friend. The sex toy and another one found under the bench will be admitted as evidence at trial and jurors will be allowed to see the sex toy.The trial is expected to be graphic in detail with witnesses testifying that they could hear the noise of the device coming from under the judge's robe while he was conducting the trial and a court stenographer says the sounds were recorded on her tapes of the trial.