San Francisco:
A person who attacked the aged husband of former US Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer was sentenced to life in jail with out parole Tuesday by a California state court docket, the district legal professional normal’s workplace mentioned.
David DePape, who broke into the couple’s San Francisco house and bludgeoned Paul Pelosi in a horrifying assault captured on police bodycam, was already serving a 30-year federal sentence for the incident.
A San Francisco decide sentenced DePape, 44, “to a time period of life in jail with out the opportunity of parole following his conviction on aggravated kidnapping and different costs,” the San Francisco district legal professional normal’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
On the time of the October 2022 assault, Democrat Nancy Pelosi was second in line to the presidency and an everyday goal of outlandish far-right conspiracy theories.
DePape — a Canadian former nudist activist who supported himself with occasional carpentry work — had initially deliberate to focus on Nancy Pelosi. However he as a substitute encountered her then-82-year-old husband.
Throughout what DePape informed officers was a “fairly amicable” dialog with Paul Pelosi, the husband managed to name for assist from legislation enforcement officers.
When police arrived moments later, DePape hit Pelosi with a hammer earlier than officers rushed at him and took the weapon away.
Pelosi was knocked unconscious and had his cranium fractured. He spent nearly per week in a hospital, the place he underwent surgical procedure.
Nancy Pelosi was not at house the night time of the assault.
Moments earlier than his sentencing Tuesday, DePape delivered a rambling, tearful assertion about conspiracy theories together with the 9/11 assaults and “evil magic homicide rituals,” in response to the San Francisco Chronicle.
He didn’t apologize to the Pelosi household, the newspaper mentioned.
DePape’s legal professionals have beforehand mentioned they intend to enchantment.
He “will now face justice for the violence that he wrought because of overheated harmful and divisive partisan rhetoric spewed on-line and in individual,” San Francisco district legal professional Brooke Jenkins mentioned within the assertion.
“Whereas some politicians made mild of this incident and joked about it to attain political factors this was a horrific assault on one in all our leaders, a household and our democracy. We should all do our half to face for justice and the rule of legislation.”
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