During a sentencing hearing in Las Vegas on January 3, 2024 Deobra Redden leapt over a judicial bench and attacked a Nevada judge Mary Kay Holthus who was about to deliver Redden's sentence in an attempted battery case. A week later Judge Holthus sentenced him to up to four years in prison for the battery charge. Now Redden faces charges from the attack on Judge Holthus of attempted murder against a victim age 60 or older, battery on a protected person 60 or older, extortion by threat, intimidating a public officer, battery on an officer resulting in substantial bodily harm, willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property resulting in substantial bodily harm, battery on a protected person, battery by a prisoner and an unlawful act regarding bodily fluid.