Man caught on camera attacking Las Vegas judge sentenced to 19 to 48 months in unrelated case

LAS VEGAS -- The aforesaid justice accosted by a suspect successful a Las Vegas courtroom past week sentenced her attacker Monday to up to 4 years successful situation successful an unrelated case.

Deobra Delone Redden leapt implicit the seat and attacked Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus successful her courtroom past week aft trying to person the justice helium was turning astir his convulsive past.

The condemnation handed down Monday was successful transportation with a shot bat onslaught connected a idiosyncratic past year. Redden stood successful tribunal successful shackles with a disguise connected his look and orangish mitts connected his hands, flanked by a radical of jailhouse officers.

His lawyer, Caesar Almase, declined to remark extracurricular the courtroom. In the onslaught past week, Redden had to beryllium wrestled disconnected the justice by respective tribunal and jailhouse officers and courtroom unit members - including immoderate who were seen throwing punches.

One courtroom marshal was hospitalized for attraction of a bleeding gash connected his forehead and a dislocated shoulder.

Redden launched himself astatine the justice conscionable aft asking for leniency and describing himself arsenic "a idiosyncratic who ne'er stops trying to bash the close happening nary substance however hard it is."

When it became wide Holthus was going to condemnation him to situation time, the tribunal marshal moved to handcuff Redden and instrumentality him into custody. That's erstwhile the suspect started yelling expletives and charged guardant arsenic radical successful the courtroom assemblage began to scream.

Redden vaulted a defence table, dove implicit the judge's seat and landed atop Holthus. The video showed the justice falling backmost against a partition and an American emblem toppling connected them.

Redden "supermanned implicit the judicial bench," Jerry Wiese, the court's main judge, said successful describing the event.

Holthus suffered immoderate injuries but was backmost to enactment the adjacent day.

Wiese credited tribunal clerk Michael Lasso for acting rapidly to support the judge, saying helium was the "primary person" who pulled Redden disconnected "and astir apt kept her from having much terrible injuries."