Herman Thomas’ Accusers

Alabama Mobile  New details on the backgrounds of 15 men accusing a former judge of sexually abusing them while they were defendants in his court.
by Jessica Taloney
Published: Tue, August 11, 2009 - 5:26 pm CST
There's no question the 15 men accusing a former judge of sexually abusing them have checkered pasts, but prosecutors say it doesn't mean what they're saying isn't true.

According to court records, all of the accusers have a criminal history, including drugs, assaults, robberies and even murder, but investigators, including one who testified when Thomas lost his law license in April, say it was the alleged victims' run-ins with the law that put them in Thomas' path.

Fourteen of the accusers appeared in Thomas' court, either while he was a district judge from 1990 to 1999 or while he was a circuit judge from 1999 to 2007.

"There are people who have made ridiculous statements about Judge Thomas, but they are total lies," said Thomas' attorney, Bob Clark, who has been outspoken in questioning the accusers' credibility since Thomas was first arrested in March. "These guys are murders, mother muggers, rapists and robbers," said Clark.

Thomas, who resigned from the bench in October 2007 amid rumors of the sexual misconduct, pleaded not guilty in March to 57 counts including sodomy, sexual abuse, kidnapping and extortion. His attorney says he will also plead not guilty to the 46 new charges filed Friday after he was indicted for the second time by a special Mobile County Grand Jury.

The indictments accuse the former judge of paddling the alleged victims, inappropriately touching them and in some cases engaging in oral and anal sex.

One case presented to the Grand Jury was no billed because jurors did not believe there was sufficient evidence to send the case to trial

District Attorney John Tyson declined to comment on anything not specifically written in the indictment.

Thomas is scheduled to go to trial on all 103 charges October 5.

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Of course they have records- what other position to be in to threaten these people than a judge.  Also the racecard line of Bobs…...well lets see all the victims are the same race so how does that come in here?  Also the victims came to the D A- He didnt go looking for them just in case they may have something bad to say about Herman….wake up all races and see this for what it is and let the evidence speak for itself.  Hopefully Mr Clark will leave when this circus is over or himself be indicted for something and Mobile will be a better place. 
All he represents are thugs, rapists and murderers but they are o k when they are paying his fee arent they?  Right on.

Is it me or what but Bob Clark always looks like he is either stoned or drunk?  Picking him for your attorney Thomas was a very stupid mistake, or maybe Clark owes you one wink.

Are you too young to remember Bill Clinton coming out in front of the whole world, shaking his finger and demanding that he had not had sexual relations with that woman?  lol

Politicians tend to be on the arrogant side and have ice water running through their veins.  They honestly do start thinking they are above it all.

I do not get the whole “Mother Muggers” comment. Is there really people who only go out mugging mothers? Either way a mugger is a mugger. The evidence is piling up on this guy. However, the “accusations” do not seem to be phasing him all that much. Did anyone else see the video were he was walking out of the booking station and just casually walked up to a guy and shook his hand? Sure I guess some would say that not showing nerves or emotion could be a sign that the person knows that they will be found innocent, because they did not do it. However, in this case I would think with his reputation and name getting tarnished and soiled in the was it is, that he would be showing a little more emotion or concern at the least.

LOL Right on Bob!!

This guy quit too.  If they had nothing he would have fought that move back when this all first started.

Cowboy Bob’s rant kind of reminded me of Arlo Guthrie and Alice’s Restaurant.

“...there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there.  Mother rapers.  Father stabbers.  Father rapers!  Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!  And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me.”

If it is all a lie he should have nothing to worry about. He sat on the bench and knows how it works. So if it isn’t true, he should be just sitting back on the front poarch enjoying mint julieps. If it is true? he should be sweating bullets. After all they did find some pretty damning evidence. Semen in the closet, the paddle, and then the things that haven’t been disclosed. If he is innocent he has nothing to worry about.

Hey, it all rhymes perfectly.  Maybe they were simply trying for some type of CNN OJ footage publicity through an original jingle at that?  As in: *Murderers, Mother Muggers, rapists and robbers*

It still gives me a laugh once in a blue moon to recall a speech included with Denzel Washington’s role in the Malcolm X movie from years ago.

“We’ve been had, lied to, hoodwinked, bam(mmm)boozled”.  The biggest remedy I’ve ever found for having to take any of this seriously was easily Chris Rock’s SNL character “Nat X”.

Possibility there might ever have been (or still could be) a corrupt judge out there, even among little old Mobile County?  Ya’ think?..

we are supposed to believe him because he is a judge er ah I mean EX-judge?,I been framed I says!.he looks guilty to me LOL

It’s funny that Bob Clark calls these victims those names as that is all he represents : “Murderers, Mother Muggers, rapists and robbers.” Oh and Herman of course… They together are real class acts wouldn’t you agree?

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