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.
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 bitchy 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 bitch
On your recommendation, I did watch the video. Your bar for calling someone a “smug bitch” is alarmingly low.
I wouldn’t say that was a “smile”, either.
Some people’s comments are confessions.
Dude is a repeat offender who’s already been treated with kid gloves by the system, and makes the genius-level call to violently attack his judge… and that’s your takeaway? Fucker deserves a nice vacation behind bars - and now he’s gonna get it.
Doesn’t matter you don’t get to attack someone because they’re smug. He needs to be locked up and pacified.
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.
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
Huh, turns out it was well deserved in this case.
Written like someone who received a sentencing from this judge with an axe to grind. How long you in for?
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
Jesus, psychos everywhere.