Defendant Who Soared Over Bench To Attack Judge Sentenced

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Like Icarus before him, Deobra Redden took flight… and immediately regretted it.

Redden took a guilty plea to a felony battery charge. After asking for probation, explaining that he was “at a better place in my life,” Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus snarked back, “I think it’s time you get a taste of something else.” Not a great moment for judicial professionalism, to be honest.

As it happened, it was the judge who got a taste of something else when Redden proceeded to bound from the defense table over the four-foot bench attempting to sack Holthus to push her out of field goal range.

Now Redden’s been sentenced to 26-to-65 years for that jump.

The sentence is so long because Redden pleaded guilty to attempted murder by way of mental illness — he was not on his medications at the time of the jump — for the attack, despite seeming only to add another felony battery to his belt. Which is still extraordinarily serious, especially as an attack on a judge, but taking this to attempted murder involves a leap to rival Redden’s.

But this was the deal prosecutors would offer and so here we are.

Man who jumped a desk to attack a Nevada judge in the courtroom is sentenced

Earlier: Defendant Leaps Over Bench To Attack Judge, Gets Pummeled By Law Clerk

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