LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A decide sentenced the person who attacked one other Las Vegas decide earlier this yr to at the very least 26 years in jail, saying the incident was an assault on all the judiciary.
On Jan. 3, Deobra Redden, 31, attacked Las Vegas District Court docket Decide Mary Kay Holthus as Holthus was sentencing him to jail in one other case, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported.
Throughout his trial for tried homicide in September, Redden pleaded responsible however mentally unwell after Holthus and her legislation clerk testified. Redden’s scheduled sentencing two weeks in the past was rescheduled as a result of he was not transported from jail to the courtroom.
On Tuesday, prosecutors requested District Court docket Decide Susan Johnson for substantial jail time whereas Redden’s attorneys prompt he serve a concurrent jail sentence to the one he was already serving below Holthus. Redden’s lawyer, Carl Arnold, stated the time amounted to 4-11 years.
Redden was serving jail time on the tried battery cost, which Holthus sentenced him to because the preliminary listening to continued on Jan. 8.
Johnson declined to condemn Redden concurrently as his lawyer requested. As an alternative, she sentenced him to an mixture jail time period of 26-65 years.
“It was not just retaliation or an attack on Judge Holthus,” Johnson stated, “It was also an attack on the judiciary.” Johnson added medical doctors who evaluated Redden concluded he knew between “right and wrong.”
Redden was in Holthus’ courtroom on Jan. 3 for sentencing on a cost of tried battery with substantial bodily hurt. Holthus, who was 62 on the time, was sitting behind the bench, which she described as 4 ft excessive, when Redden ran as much as her, jumped over the desk and attacked her, video confirmed. A number of different individuals, together with Holthus’ courtroom marshal and her legislation clerk, then fought with Redden earlier than throwing him to the bottom.
Deobra Redden cries in courtroom earlier than a decide sentences him for attacking one other decide on Jan. 3. 2024. (KLAS)
“I’m not a bad person, I’m not an evil guy,” Redden advised Johnson earlier than she sentenced him. “I’m not making excuses for my actions, but I’m saying I’m not a bad person and I know that I did not intend to kill Mary Kay Holthus, I know I cared about her wellbeing.”
Holthus didn’t converse throughout the sentencing. As an alternative, prosecutors learn an announcement from her.
“He made a conscious decision to kill me and made every effort to succeed,” the assertion stated, “If he had his way, he’d be facing a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for murder.”
Redden appeared in entrance of Holthus a number of instances earlier than January’s assault. He was beforehand in entrance of Holthus on prices of malicious destruction of property.
Redden pleaded responsible to a different cost of tried battery with substantial bodily hurt in November 2023. Holthus later issued a bench warrant for his arrest in December after he missed a courtroom look. That listening to, his sentencing, continued on Jan. 3.
Redden spoke throughout the sentencing, saying partly, he was not “an evil person.”
“I saw nothing but red,” Redden stated, including he didn’t bear in mind the rest from that day.
With credit score for time served, Redden can be eligible for parole within the 2050s.
