FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – The KING 5 Investigators have uncovered new details surrounding a Federal Way judge involved in a sex scandal.

The judge resigned in December after allegedly telling her staff she'd had an affair with a public defender. Afterward, she denied it ever happened. But the public defender has a very different story.

KING 5 Investigators obtained documents submitted to the Washington State Bar Association. It's a 4-page letter written by the public defender saying he did have what he terms an "intimate encounter" with the judge.

Judge Colleen Hartl allegedly got drunk at a staff Christmas party and bragged to colleagues that she'd had sex with a young public defender who appeared in her courtroom several times a week.

Hartl resigned and the attorney, Sean Cecil, was banned from the court.

The Bar Association started investigating.

Wednesday, KING 5 obtained the documents in which Cecil tells investigators it was the judge's idea to see each other socially, and he went along.

He writes they first had drinks at her country club.

A week later, she invited him to have lunch at her house to see her home remodel.

The next day, he says, they had cocktails and wine at a local restaurant, then went to her house where they had an intimate encounter.

Cecil also told the Bar he only had 10 cases before the judge after that night.

That means presiding judge Michael Morgan only has to review those few cases, not hundreds, to make sure justice was carried out fairly.

Presiding judge Morgan believes the attorney and lifted the order banning Cecil from their court today.

The Bar Association hasn't finished its investigation of the attorney and the Commission on Judicial Conduct is currently investigating the judge.