A serial felon who hurled himself at a Las Vegas judge and battered her to the ground as she prepared to jail him refused to face another judge over the attack this morning.
Deobra Redden, 30, launched himself at Judge Mary Kay Holthus with the words ‘nah f*** that b**ch’ as she rejected his pleas for more probation.
Court video showed Holthus disappearing under a flurry of blows from the thug as she begged him to stop before security staff managed to haul him off.
This morning he had six new felony charges added in a state where judicial officials are ‘protected persons’, but refused to come up from the cells.
A spokeswoman for Clark County Courts said the case is likely to resume in his absence next week.
Deobra Redden, 30, refused to appear from the cells as he faces six new felony counts after his attack on Judge Mary Holthus on Wednesday
Judge Mary Holthus had warned him ‘it’s time that he got a taste of something else’
The thug has been repeatedly jailed, paroled and granted probation for a series of violent offences dating back at least 12 years, but told Holthus ‘I just figure I’m in a better place in my mind,’ before she attempted to sentence him.
Redden, who was supported in court by his mother, was first jailed in 2012 when he received 45 days for assault causing bodily injury to a family member.
He was jailed for another two months the following year after three times convictions for domestic battery, but he escaped with probation in 2014 when he was convicted of attempted theft.
He was twice convicted of domestic battery and once for battery with substantial bodily harm while on probation, but was sentenced to more probation which was ‘honorably discharged’ in 2020.
The following year saw him charged with attempted home invasion and destroying the property of another person, and again for domestic battery and this time he received a prison term of 12 to 30 months.
In January last year he had his first encounter with Judge Holthus on the home invasion charges.
She released him without bond after he pleaded guilty and sentenced him to a year of probation in February.
Two months later he was arrested after he threatened to ‘bust the kneecaps’ of another man with a baseball bat, ‘resulting in substantial bodily harm’.
In May he was ordered to undergo a competency determination which concluded he was competent in October.
The serial criminal launched himself at the judge as she prepared to deny him probation
Judge Holthus on the election trail in 2020 when she joined the bench Nevada 8th Judicial District Court
Deobra Redden, 30, has a lengthy record of violent crimes stretching back at least to 2012
Judge Holthus who was born in upstate New York and has three grown children joined the Clark County Court in 1991 as a deputy district attorney
Holthus issued a warrant for his arrest in December after he admitted the battery charges but failed to appear for sentencing, before the pair came face to face on Wednesday.
‘I would like to tell the court that like, based on my criminal history, I feel like I shouldn’t be sent to prison,’ he told her as she mulled his sentence.
‘Have you looked at your criminal history?’ she asked.
‘Three felonies, a gross (misdemeanor), nine misdemeanors, multiple domestic violence.
‘You got a lot going on, sir. Battery on a protected person, robberies, attempted home invasion.’
‘I just figure I’m in a better place in my mind, my mental health. I have a support system,’ he told her.
‘I just got hired as a teamster for a union making $20 an hour. And the reason behind every single domestic violence is I’d been dealing with mental health, and I didn’t know about dealing with mental health court, and I still didn’t know that I had a mental health problem until August 2022.’
He appears resigned to a jhail term as he tells her ‘But if it’s appropriate for you, then you have to do what you have to do.’
In court on Wednesday he could be heard repeatedly punching Holthus and screaming at her using explicit language, meanwhile security officers attempted to restrain the crazed criminal.
Judge Holthus can be heard pleading with the criminal and begging him to get off her.
Redden was ironically being sentenced for aggravated battery with substantial bodily harm just before he launched his attack.
Judge Holthus experienced injuries as a result of the assault and her condition is being monitored.
The marshal was also injured and had to be transported to hospital following the brutal attack.
‘We commend the heroic acts of her staff, law enforcement, and all others who subdued the defendant,’ Las Vegas District Court said in a statement to Channel 13.
‘The court remains committed to a safe and secure courthouse and courtrooms.
‘We are reviewing all our protocols and will do whatever is necessary to protect the judiciary, the public, and our employees.’
Redden’s criminal history involving charges in both Nevada and Texas.
The 30-year-old has faced charges for battery, robbery, assault, injury to property and coercion, records show.
A judge had previously demanded that Redden undergo a competency determination, he was eventually found to be competent in October.