LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person awaiting sentencing for attacking a decide earlier this yr has been remoted in his jail cell for greater than a month as a result of he and different inmates are refusing medical assessments, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
In January, Deobra Redden, 31, attacked Las Vegas District Courtroom 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 ailing after Holthus and her regulation clerk testified. A special decide was scheduled to condemn Redden two weeks in the past however the listening to was delayed as a result of he was not transported from jail to the courtroom. On the time, no cause was given for the delay.
Deobra Redden, 31, seems in courtroom on Sept. 5, 2024. (KLAS)
In keeping with a petition filed Friday, Redden is one in every of 20 Nevada Division of Corrections inmates refusing routine tuberculosis testing. Redden and the inmates have refused the testing since October.
Holthus is the decide randomly assigned to listen to the petition.
Tuberculosis spreads via the air, affecting an individual’s lungs.
“Without a negative tuberculosis test, staff cannot verify whether respondents present a health risk to the general prison population,” jail officers mentioned. “Due to the lack of bed capacity in the [High Desert State Prison] infirmary, respondents remain in isolated, segregated cells within their current units.”
Redden, a three-time felon, 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 toes 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 regulation clerk, then fought with Redden earlier than throwing him to the bottom.
Holthus’ marshal was additionally considerably injured and was out of labor for a number of weeks as a big reduce to his brow healed.
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. 5 days later, Holthus sentenced Redden to jail for the tried battery cost.
Courts have beforehand ordered the involuntary tuberculosis screening, paperwork mentioned. There was no indication there was a priority over a possible tuberculosis outbreak, apart from paperwork saying the testing was routine.
Redden’s sentencing within the assault in opposition to Holthus was scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 10. His household has mentioned he has lengthy suffered from psychological sickness and was off his medicine on the time of the assault. They ask for a lenient sentence whereas prosecutors ask for extra jail time.
