The Oklahoma Supreme Court has finally got around to disbarring former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson, aka “The Masturbating Judge”.

A jury found Thompson guilty of indecent exposure on allegations that he sat through trials, including murder cases, merrily pumping away on his penis pump, shaving his testicles and masturbating.

Thompson was sentenced to four years in prison, of which he did only 20 months, and was fined $40,000 for his whacking off in court. Thompson was until this disbarment action still able to practice law, although no one would likely want to stand near him in a courtroom.

What is so surprising is that it took so long for the Oklahoma Supreme Court to decide that disbarment was justified in Thompson’s case.

One might expect that a felony conviction on four counts of indecent exposure, four one-year prison sentences, 20 months served in state prison and registration as a sex offender are each in themselves pretty good cause for disbarment of an attorney which leaves one to wonder if the justices were themselves somehow distracted by things going on out of sight…

Anyhow, you can read all about it at Oklahoma Judge Who Used Sex Device in Court Disbarred