A panel of three magistrates dismissed the case of indecent public exposure against a top British judge after they could not find sufficient evidence against him.

The court acquitted Sir Stephen Richards of charges that he twice exposed himself to a woman on a South London commuter train in 2006. According to The Times of London, the 56-year-old judge sits in the Court of Appeal and has presided over several high profile cases.

Richards was charged under the Sexual Offenses Act with two counts of "intentionally exposing his genitals intending that someone would see them and would be caused alarm or distress."

The top British judge expressed his surprise over the offenses against him when police arrested him in January after a woman identified him as the man who twice approached her on the train with his fly open.

Denying the charges, Richards said that he is a happily married, family man who "cannot perceive deriving any form of gratification to exposing my penis." He also added that he wears a particular style of Calvin Klein underwear that would make it impossible for him to expose himself in the manner his accuser described.