There are days where I'm proud to be a member of the bar, and then there are other days. 

A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

Surely, there's a reasonable explanation:

Thompson, a married father of three grown children, testified that the penis pump was given to him as a joke by a longtime hunting and fishing buddy.  "It wasn't something I was hiding," he said.  He said he may have absentmindedly squeezed the pump's handle during court cases but never used it to masturbate.

[The court reporter] told authorities that she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. A whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he hadn't heard it but would listen for it.

Investigators later checked the carpet, Thompson's robes and the chair behind the bench and found semen, according to court records.