An Oklahoma state judge frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections while his court was in session, charges a petition by the state?s attorney general seeking his removal. Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed the petition on Wednesday with state judicial authorities seeking the ouster of Sapulpa District Judge Donald Thompson, 57, for «conduct constituting an offense involving moral turpitude in violation of the Oklahoma Constitution,» Edmondson?s spokesman said two days ago.

The judge flatly denies the charges made in the petition, his lawyer, Clark Brewster, said on Thursday. He said the judge received a penis pump for his 50th birthday as a gag gift, which became a source of a running joke in the courthouse. «The allegations are bizarre and preposterous,» Brewster said. «Recently, some members of local law enforcement that are upset with a number of his rulings, used this situation to embarrass and attack him.»

In the petition, the attorney general charged Thompson used a penis pump, a device billed as providing sexual pleasure and promising better erections and larger penis size, during trials and exposed himself to a court reporter several times while masturbating on the bench. «On one occasion, Ms. (Lisa) Foster (Thompson?s court reporter for 15 years), saw Judge Thompson holding his penis up and shaving underneath it with a disposable razor while on the bench,» the petition reads.