and therefore would have taken that case to either get him in for way longer or out.
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person. Wiki
I do not know the case and all I see is a black man in a suite like outfit jumping at a white women judge. Either he is mentally handicaped and needs long term treatment in a facility to never come out, if the therapy changing his perception fails or the county of Las Vegas created an environement of systematical racism and seggregation in which the only way to get what is morally right is physical unlawful actions. In the latter, I'd sue the judge too, for supporting an unconstitutional system asking to start a RICO investigation on bribary, corruption or secret lodge activtiy, known as conspiracy against the constitution, such as the KKK.