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.

  • @Thteven
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    669 months ago

    Dude leaped over the bench and beat her ass and you think he’s reformed lmao

    • @BigilusDickilus
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      -189 months ago

      You understand though, he was angry in that situation that he was going to face consequences, it’s totally different.

      • @Crimsonknee
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        219 months ago

        ??? Being grumpy about something warrants physical assault, huh

          • @[email protected]
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            119 months ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              -49 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                9 months ago

                I had that attitude until I stumbled on people who clearly must live in upside-down world. The “/s” is essential for a site where that relies on text as the medium and where people will have no prior knowledge of the writer.

                Sarcasm in the real world can usually be understood through body language and tone. We don’t have that here.

              • @[email protected]
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                49 months ago

                Lol talking about social skills while not knowing that sarcasm is generally conveyed with changes and tone and other markers that aren’t possible with text…