First sentenced to 30 years in federal trial for assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, DePape now faces life behind bars
The man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer at their San Francisco home was convicted on Friday of aggravated kidnapping, as part of a state trial that could put him behind bars for life.previously found guilty in a federal trialOn Friday, a San Francisco jury also found DePape guilty, of first-degree burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, threatening a family member of a public official, dissuading a witness to the charges and aggravated kidnapping.
The San Francisco superior court judge, Harry Dorfman, agreed, and dismissed the state charges of attempted murder, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. In her rebuttal, the assistant district attorney, Phoebe Maffei, pointed out that DePape told a detective and testified in federal court that he had planned to get a video of Nancy Pelosi confessing to what he believed to be crimes and post it on the internet.
On Monday, Maffei told the jury DePape unleashed a “reign of terror” on Paul Pelosi before bludgeoning him with a hammer as part of a plan he put together over months. Lipson told the jury during closing arguments that before the attack, DePape had been living an isolated, lonely life and “went down the rabbit hole of propaganda and conspiracy theories”.
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