A San Francisco judge sentenced David DePape, the man who brutally attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer two years ago, to life in prison without the possibility of patrol.
DePape was convicted of five state charges in June: residential burglary, aggravated kidnapping, attempting to sway a witness, false imprisonment, and threatening a family member of a public official.
His sentencing hearing took place just a day after the two-year anniversary of the attack when DePape broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home.
DePape awoke Paul Pelosi in his bed, demanding to know where Nancy Pelosi was. DePape held Pelosi hostage and brutally beat him until officers entered the residence, causing severe injuries, including a skull fracture.
Before the judge declared DePape’s sentence, DePape took the stand and spent 30 minutes rambling about how 9/11 was an inside job, his belief that he was a psychic and that his ex-wife was a “body double and condemning America’s ‘evil murder magic rituals.’” DePape did not apologize to Pelosi or his family for brutally attacking him.
DePape’s defense attorney called for him to have a new trial since the felony charge of aggravated kidnapping was added after a San Francisco judge dismissed several other charges due to California’s double jeopardy law.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins opposed the motion for a new trial.
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“This case involved a fact pattern that is unlike any we have seen before,” Jenkins wrote. “The crimes committed by the defendant were horrific and novel.”
DePape was sentenced in May to 30 years in prison on federal charges of attempted kidnapping and assault.
During the federal trial, DePape admitted he wanted to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage until she admitted the “lies” about “Russiagate” — a scandal that erroneously tied Trump to Russia in 2016.