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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