Original upload date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:57:32 GMT
A man who was captured on video attacking a judge in a Las Vegas courtroom after vaulting over her bench and desk has been sentenced to decades in prison.
Deobra Redden was ordered on Tuesday to se
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rve between 26 and 65 years in a Nevada prison for the attack on Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported.
Redden, 31, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in September to attempted murder and other charges, ending his trial shortly after Holthus had testified that she feared for her life when Redden vaulted over her 4-foot-high (1.2-meter-high) bench and landed on her.
The attack happened Jan. 3 as Holthus was about to deliver Redden’s sentence in a separate felony battery case.
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