"Spanking Judge" Herman Thomas
MOBILE, Ala. -- Herman Thomas will hold a news conference Wednesday to announce his intentions in regard to a state Senate seat held by a woman who just months ago testified against the former Mobile County Circuit Court judge in his sexual abuse trial.
Vivian Davis Figures occupies the seat and has said she will run for re-election. Figures testified against Thomas in his October trial. Her son was one of the men whom prosecutors accused Thomas of victimizing.
The trial captivated Mobile's legal community and the public at large, as several young men testified that Thomas told them to pull down their pants for a whipping or go back to jail. Some said the judge made them masturbate for him inside a secluded room near his chambers in Government Plaza. Thomas' attorneys aggressively challenged the credibility of the witnesses on the basis of their criminal records.
The jury found Thomas not guilty of sex abuse, sodomy and assault, and the judge acquitted him of 14 more charges that jurors had deadlocked on.
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