A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge’s bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, is scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning.
In his Jan. 3 appearance before Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, Deobra Redden, who was facing prison time for a felony battery charge stemming from a baseball bat attack last year, tried to convince the judge that he was turning around his violent past.
Redden asked for leniency while describing himself as “a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is.”
But when it became clear Holthus was going to sentence him to prison time, and as the court marshal moved to handcuff and take him into custody, Redden yelled expletives and charged forward. People in the courtroom audience, including his foster mother, began to scream.
ROUND 2
FIGHT
FIBISH HIM!!
Alright, Mike Tyson.
And in Vegas! I’m so hyped!
How can the judge who has been attached not be disqualified from ruling in that case?
She’s not ruling on her own assault, she’s finishing the original sentencing which was interrupted when he launched at her.
So her decision on sentencing was already decided, she just never got to announce what it was. His subsequent behavior proves that sentencing is the correct course of action.
Edit As expected:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/las-vegas-judge-attacker-sentenced.html
“sentenced the man on Monday to 19 to 48 months in prison on a previous battery charge, emphasizing that his actions last week did not affect her sentencing decision.”
and:
“On Monday, Mr. Redden returned to Judge Holthus’s courtroom to complete the sentencing hearing that his violent outburst had interrupted.”
and:
"Judge Holthus emphasized that Mr. Redden was being sentenced solely on an April 2023 battery charge, to which he had previously pleaded guilty. She said any charges related to his attack last week would be handled by a different judge.
“For purposes of the record,” Judge Holthus said, “I want to make it clear that I am not changing or modifying the sentence I was in the process of imposing last week before I was interrupted by defendant’s actions.”"
Ahh… I thought she would rule on his subsequent assault charge
Not necessarily. If they actually were reformed and the judge wasn’t hearing it, the sentencing wasn’t correct.
Because that’s not what impartial means. Impartial doesn’t mean dispassionate, hardly any judge sits a bench and not feel something about at least ten percent of their cases.
Impartial means not allowing that emotion to be the main driver. Judges and juries are not robots and the Court system takes this facet into account in appeals.
I think she deserves a rematch and the chance to teach this idiot a lesson.
Who gets the PPV money?
It’s not a cage match, sadly.
Judge by DEC
What happens in Vegas stays on your permanent record.
This headline reads like a fight card wtf lol
Watch the whole video she smiles all smugly and says “I think he needa a taste of something more” She could have just read the sentence instead of trying to be all cute and removed with that smile. She deserved it. These judges lock people away for LIFE and then go have lunch and golf together about time they realize they can face consequences for being unreasonable. Shouldnt have smiled and acted like a smug removed
On your recommendation, I did watch the video. Your bar for calling someone a “smug removed” is alarmingly low.
I wouldn’t say that was a “smile”, either.
Some people’s comments are confessions.
He has 12 prior convictions, including 3 felonies and 9 misdemeanors, most of them from acts of violence. Dude seriously needs to learn to temper himself.
Dude seriously needs to learn to temper himself
The American prison system will be a greeeeeat place to do that!
Our willingness to punish people instead of helping them knows no bounds. We’re #1 for prison population in the world in both percentage of population and in absolute numbers. Take that, China!
The US culture is just crushingly harmful and abusive.
If parents teach kids well, society will not have to ditch out such punishment
Written like someone who received a sentencing from this judge with an axe to grind. How long you in for?
Doesn’t matter you don’t get to attack someone because they’re smug. He needs to be locked up and pacified.
Huh, turns out it was well deserved in this case.
Wow, can’t believe you’re defending this animal. He was a convicted felon on trial for a different felony, any normal person would pass judgement
