The person who was convicted within the 2022 assault on the husband of Home Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole Tuesday following his state trial.
DePape’s early morning break-in on the Pelosi dwelling nearly precisely two years in the past on October 28, 2022 — simply days earlier than the 2022 midterm elections — despatched shockwaves via america and was attributed to the predictable results of more and more demonizing political rhetoric.
The assault on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi was captured on police bodycam video after officers responded to his 911 name and located him scuffling with DePape, who then bludgeoned Pelosi with a hammer.
Opening statements within the state trial started in late Might, a day after DePape’s federal sentencing was reopened to permit him to talk after a procedural error throughout his unique sentencing.
Final June, a jury convicted David DePape of state prices for his home-invasion assault on Paul Pelosi within the San Francisco dwelling he shares with the previous speaker.
DePape confronted 5 counts within the state trial, together with aggravated kidnapping leading to bodily hurt or loss of life, false imprisonment of an elder or dependent grownup, threatening household of public officers, first diploma residential housebreaking and stopping or dissuading a witness by drive or menace.
Earlier than issuing the sentence, Decide Harry Dorfman dismissed arguments from DePape’s attorneys that he be granted a brand new trial, saying that he supposed “that Mr. DePape won’t ever get out of jail.”
When given an opportunity to deal with the courtroom previous to his sentencing, DePape learn from a prolonged assertion that targeted deeply on numerous authorities conspiracy theories. DePape claimed that “911 was an inside job” along with being psychic and saying he believes his ex-partner was changed by a physique double.
Christine Pelosi learn a press release from her father Paul Pelosi. The letter opened by saying “the final peaceable sleep I had was Oct. 28, 2022,” earlier than detailing the bodily and psychological impacts of the assault.
The life sentence on state prices is on prime of the 30-year sentence DePape obtained for his federal conviction.
Each the prosecution and protection mentioned the life with out parole sentence on the state prices could be served concurrently with DePape’s federal sentence, but it surely nonetheless has not been decided the place DePape would serve the sentences.
