Hey, shouldn’t every courthouse have a balcony that drops down six or eight floors to a concrete pad with nearby fire hoses to wash up the mess. Let’s give these people the opportunity to simply jump, cause no more than a small contained mess, and save the taxpayer the money of trying them, convicting them, and executing them. Actually, this sounds like something that Monty Python would create a pretty good skit for.
It is possible he was making an escape attempt. Having been held isolated in a courthouse room, he might not have realized what floor he was on.