The choose who was attacked by a defendant in a Las Vegas courtroom final week has sentenced her attacker on Monday, Jan. 8, to 19 months to 4 years in jail in an unrelated case.
Deobra Delone Redden, 30, jumped over the bench and attacked Clark County District Courtroom Choose Mary Kay Holthus in her courtroom final week after making an attempt to persuade the choose he was turning round his violent previous (learn here).
The sentence handed down on Monday, Jan. 8, was in reference to a baseball bat assault on an individual final 12 months.
To stop a second assault, Redden appeared in courtroom in shackles with a masks on his face, flanked by a gaggle of jail officers.
Earlier than the assault final week, Redden requested the choose for leniency and described himself as “an individual who by no means stops making an attempt to do the proper factor regardless of how laborious it’s.”
When it grew to become clear Holthus was going to condemn him to jail time, the courtroom marshal moved to handcuff Redden and take him into custody. That’s when the defendant began yelling expletives and charged ahead as folks within the courtroom viewers started to scream.
He needed to be wrestled off the choose by a number of courtroom and jail officers and courtroom workers members.