The Court’s Competency Evaluators of Deobra Redden Might Just Be the Incompetents.
There are well educated, hardworking, middleclass people who laugh at the video of Deobra Redden leaping over the bench to attack Judge Mary Kay Holthus. There are people of different skin colors, people who live in different states and different countries, who don’t find this to be a black and white issue. Pardon the double entendre.
People ask what came over this 30-year-old (chronological age) man, to cause him to do such a dangerous, illegal, and ill-advised act. (With his defense attorney standing there, looking impotent!)
Here are some FREE Docs of the day that shed a small light on the subject. I am starting to work on my second book and will probably give an in-depth analysis of the issues that resulted in this bizarre behavior in the book. Stay tuned.
It appears that the athletic young man was named after another Deobra Redden, who I will call Namesake. Namesake was charged with attempted murder in 1993, maybe before the younger Redden was born. The charges were dismissed.
Namesake was convicted on misdemeanor drug charges.
Namesake also had legal problems of a financial nature.
Deodra’s had another caretaker who had financial legal problems.
Our young Deodra reportedly found his way into the foster care system.
When he became a man, chronologically, he started racking up a record.
Mr. Redden and Judge Holthus first met when Mr. Redden was charged with malicious destruction of property.
Eventually there was a court determination that Mr. Redden might be incompetent. He was tested and committed to a mental health facility, Lakes Crossing.
That was about seven months ago.
The taxpayers must have gotten their money’s worth from Lakes Crossing, because a mere five months later, 29 years of trauma, poverty and neglect were erased from Mr. Redden’s psych, and he was determined and adjudged to be competent. Miraculous!
Was Mr. Deodra Redden an incorrigible felon, as portrayed by mainstream media?
Was there no more appropriate way to treat the lifelong “child” of the state, than incarceration in a prison? Judge Holthus claimed, “I just can’t…”
Mr. Redden pled guilty to charges of battery and literally pled with the court, “I’m doing better now.”
His pleas fell on deaf ears.
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