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Judge Cornelius Holden is a minor antagonist in the 2016 video game Mafia III, serving as the main antagonist of the mission The Poor Sumbitch. He is a corrupt judge and the important asset to Marcano Crime Family, as he was the one able to legalize Sal Marcano's gambling over New Bordeaux.
He was voiced by Richard Epcar, who also voiced Joker in Injustice, Etemon and Myotismon in the English dub of Digimon Adventure, and Cyrus Temple in the prologue of Saints Row IV.
Biography[]
Judge Holden was a federal judge in Louisiana, which fell under the 5th Circuit Court of the United States, and he was elected as Judge in 1951. Despite as a well-known judge to the public, he was a corrupt man. He took bribes from Sal Marcano, although as this was later revealed, said bribery got very expensive, as Marcano spent a lot of a money and effort gaining access to Judge Holden, and a magistrate of his standing did not come cheap. Sal's brother, Lou makes sure that Holden get what he wants, which were hookers, drugs and booze, also providing him protection.
Holden was also revealed to be a white supremacist. He was thrust into the attention of New Bordeaux citizens when his docket included presiding over the trial of Hollis Dupree, a white man who was charged with the murder of Lamont Harris and Trey McCall, two black men who suffered a flat tire in the Southdowns neighborhood. Unable to find a pay phone, the two men went to the nearest house, which happened to be Dupree's residence, and knocked on the door in the hopes he could offer a hand or they could use his telephone to contact AAA. Dupree instead opened fire on them, with an autopsy of one of them showing gunshot wounds in his back as he ran away. Dupree's defense was that the men approached his residence at an odd hour of the night and when he saw them through the peephole he considered them to be Lincoln Clay.
When Sal was making plans to build the Paradiso Hotel and Casino, he was dependent on Holden to motion to overturn Louisiana's anti-gambling law. Bribes were paid by way of Lou's corrupt accountant, Tony Derazio, as discovered when Lincoln Clay killed Derazio and took his ledger. Even so, Clay and his ally John Donovan faliled to recognize the relationship immediately, as Derazio coded his ledger "USCC5". Donovan correctly surmised it was the Fifth Circuit Court, however any given circuit has about twenty judges who rotate. As the year went on, Holden was not very cooperative with Lou and was frightened due to Lincoln Clay's attacks on Lou's rackets and henchmen.
With their relationship becoming strained, Judge Holden told Uncle Lou that he had better get his shit together, warning that until something is done about the recent attacks in the French Ward "your brother's case is going nowhere". Holden said he did not get paid enough, to which Lou replied "Oh ho; going to stop you right there, Cornelius. You never know who might be listening"; which was true as John Donovan wiretapped their call. Lou proposed getting some of his best men to be Holden's bodyguards. Donovan told Lincoln that the Hollis Dupree trial was in progress. He also managed to pull work orders for Holden's limousine, saying it would be difficult, but not impossible to attack such a fortified vehicle.
Trivia[]
- Holden had a similar role of Judge Hillwood, as they both work for the mob and were related to court cases.
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