[user104658]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

He was not under arrest at that point

It was a sentencing hearing, normally the person being defended would be being watched by court staff like a hawk because there's a high risk they'll go for the judge. Things like this happen all the time (for obvious reasons; emotions are running very high when people are getting put away for years) but normally there'd be security on top of him before he got anywhere near the front... let alone up and over the table.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

It was a sentencing hearing, normally the person being defended would be being watched by court staff like a hawk because there's a high risk they'll go for the judge. Things like this happen all the time (for obvious reasons; emotions are running very high when people are getting put away for years) but normally there'd be security on top of him before he got anywhere near the front... let alone up and over the table.

He was about to be hand cuffed and it was a split second decision
And to leap over the judges platform was something out of an action movie

[Ammi]

…that’s the thing, I was reading that an attack on a court judge is almost a daily thing in the US…I guess this is more attracting the media attention because of the attack itself with him diving over the bar and lunging at her…that’s a first, I think…(…hopefully a last…)…