Posted by Kimberlieo at acaa6ff8.ipt.aol.com on October 20, 2003 at 13:26:08:
In Reply to: Justice isn't THAT blind nt posted by Runshouse21 on October 20, 2003 at 13:24:10:
: : Read the short article, then hit us with some jokes. If you make me shoot the milk I'm drinking out of my nostrils, you win.
: : Unbelievable
: : Mon October 20, 2003 09:31 AM ET
: : BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - A French judge was placed under official investigation for "sexual exposure" in a courtroom, prosecutors said on Friday, after a newspaper reported the judge masturbated while a lawyer pleaded her case.
: : The 39-year old judge masturbated for several minutes on Wednesday while listening to a female lawyer addressing the court in a case dealing with a dispute between neighbors, regional paper La Charente Libre said.
: : One of the paper's reporters saw the judge "making unambiguous gestures after discretely lifting his judicial robe and opening his trousers," it said.
: : The judge was temporarily suspended from his professional duties and examined by a psychiatrist, a prosecutor in the southwestern town of Angouleme said.