The person convicted of attacking the husband of former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi within the couple’s San Francisco house with a hammer was sentenced to life in jail Tuesday after a state trial.Â
David DePape was beforehand sentenced to 30 years in jail after his June conviction on federal expenses associated to the Oct. 28, 2022, assault on Paul Pelosi. Â
A federal jury in San Francisco discovered DePape responsible of expenses, together with aggravated kidnapping, first-degree housebreaking and false imprisonment of an elder.
DEPAPE CONSIDERED NANCY PELOSI ‘EVIL,’ SAVED HER PERSONAL INFORMATION ON LAPTOP, PROSECUTION SAYS
David DePape, left, was convicted for the hammer assault that injured Paul Pelosi. At proper, Nancy Pelosi joins husband Paul in his first public look after the October 2022 incident. (Getty Photographs)
“It’s my intention that Mr. DePape won’t ever get out of jail. He can by no means be paroled,” Decide Harry Dorfman stated whereas handing out the punishment.
Protection attorneys requested Dorfman to think about DePape’s psychological well being and isolation that made him inclined to on-line propaganda.
“It is a man who has at all times been a peaceable, law-abiding particular person up till his activation,” Adam Lipson stated.
DeDape, wearing jail orange, spoke at size to the courtroom about Sept. 11 being an inside job, his ex-wife being changed by a physique double and his government-provided attorneys conspiring in opposition to him.
PAUL PELOSI HAMMER ATTACKER DAVID DEPAPE RECEIVES MAXIMUM SENTENCEÂ
Paul Pelosi attends a portrait unveiling ceremony for his spouse, former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in Statuary Corridor on the Capitol in Washington. (AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
“I’m a psychic,” DePape stated whereas studying from sheets of paper. “The extra I meditate, the extra psychic I get.”
The assault occurred days earlier than the 2022 midterm elections and was captured on police physique cameras. DePape broke into the Pelosi house and shouted, “The place’s Nancy?”Â
She was in Washington, D.C., on the time.
Utilizing a hammer, DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, who sustained two head wounds, together with a cranium fracture that was mended with plates and screws that he may have for the remainder of his life. His proper arm and hand had been additionally injured.
On this picture taken from San Francisco Police Division physique digicam video, the husband of former U.S. Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, proper, fights for management of a hammer with assailant David DePape throughout a brutal assault within the couple’s San Francisco house. (San Francisco Police Division through AP)
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DePape, a Canadian citizen dwelling in the US, stated he deliberate to carry Nancy Pelosi hostage, interrogate her and “break her kneecaps” if she didn’t admit to the lies he alleged she instructed about “Russiagate,” referencing the investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 presidential marketing campaign.Â
The Related Press contributed to this report.Â
