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Competency court. and the entire scene is caught on courtroom surveillance cameras. >> in all my years on the bench, i haven't had to use the panic button before. but i pressed it on that day. >> latasha williams. >> march 22nd, 2011. las vegas, nevada. judge jackie glass, a veteran in the 8th judicial district court, is presiding over a competency hearing for 36-year-old latasha williams. >> she can't leave the courtroom. >> two months earlier, williams was arrested for two counts of child endangerment and first-degree kidnapping when she allegedly dangled a neighbor's grandchildren over the ...

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Let me go. >> a defendant goes wild in competency court. and the entire scene is caught on courtroom surveillance cameras. >> in all my years on the bench, i haven't had to use the panic button before. but i pressed it on that day. >> latasha williams. >> march 22nd, 2011. las vegas, nevada. judge jackie glass, a veteran in the 8th judicial district court, is presiding over a competency hearing for 36-year-old latasha williams. >> she can't leave the courtroom. >> months earlier, williams was arrested for two counts of child endangerment and first-degree kidnapping when she allegedly dangled a...

>> in all my years on the bench, i haven't had to use the panic button before. but i pressed it on that day. >> let me go. let me go! >> latasha williams. >> march 22nd, 2011. las vegas, nevada. judge jackie glass, a veteran in the 8th judicial district court, is presiding over a competency hearing for 36-year-old latasha williams. >> she can't leave the courtroom. >> two months earlier williams was arrested for two counts of child endanger mement and first-degree kidnapping when she allegedly dangled a neighbor's grandchildren over the balcony railing at this apartment complex. williams' atto...

Is in critical condition and it appears to me that maybe nobody gets punished. not the parents. certainly not the nine-year-old who cannot even read. >>guest: well, everything about it is so upsetting for the reasons you described. a nine-year-old in an orange prison jump suit an 8-year-old girl in critical condition, a competency hearing of sorts awaits the nine-year-old. did he have enough maturity and capacity to know what he was doing was wrong? if so, he could indeed fates charges. if not, frankly all this goes away from a criminal justice standpoint because if he did not have the capacit...