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.

  • kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Good thing we all decided we were too sensitive for the ol’ /s and that this kind of misunderstanding never happens

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      6 months ago

      If you need a /s to realize that was sarcasm you don’t have the reading comprehension/social skills to be on the internet by yourself anyway.