The Las Vegas decide brutally attacked by an acrobatic felon who leaped over her court docket bench says she was completely horrified and would have been killed if court docket workers had not rushed to her help.

On February 7, Clark County District Courtroom Decide Mary Kay Holthus supplied grand jury testimony within the tried homicide case of Deobra Redden, in accordance with a transcript obtained by Fox 5 Las Vegas. Redden was lately indicted on the felony cost for his courtroom assault on Holthus.

In January, Redden was recorded by a TV information crew leaping over the bench and pummeling Holthus because the workers pulled him off and restrained him. When the footage hit the airwaves, it instantly went viral.

In her testimony, Holthus stated she began off the sentencing listening to that day by listening to Redden speak about his plans to get a job to make a optimistic change in his life, mentioning that he was “tremendous calm.” Redden’s legal professional then requested the court docket to launch his consumer on parole.

However, Holthus ignored the request and determined to revoke Redden’s parole after his conviction for an unrelated tried battery with substantial bodily hurt.

The decide highlighted that Redden was a repeat offender who wanted to get a “style of one thing else as a result of I simply can’t with that historical past.”

Per the grand jury transcript, Holthus recalled, “The following factor I do know, he actually jumped that protection desk and flew earlier than I might even, and simply slammed me into the wall. I don’t know what hit me the place.”

She stated the ferocious assault was completely sudden and “extremely quick,” as Redden slammed her head towards the marble wall.

At one level, Holthus remembered Redden gripping her by the hair and “throwing her down backwards,” whereas she curled up in a fetal place, laying there “completely terrified.” She stated she suffered accidents throughout her physique, which have been now “lumpy and bruised.”

Regardless of the vicious beating, Holthus gave Redden props for his athletic talents to simply bounce over her elevated four-foot-high bench.

She additionally shared her gratitude for court docket personnel, stating, “In the event that they hadn’t been there, I’d not be right here. I used to be no match. He was completely taking me out.”

Holthus added, “If it was simply me, I wouldn’t have survived a number of blows to the top which is clearly the place we have been going with it. So I’m very grateful.”

As for Redden, he is presently in state jail serving a four-year sentence on his tried battery conviction. He will probably be arraigned on the tried homicide cost later this month.