Man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years

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Man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years

David DePape, right, records the ***** wedding of Gypsy Taub outside City Hall on Dec. 19, 2013, in San Francisco. DePape is accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer. DePape was known in Berkeley, Calif., as a pro-nudity activist who had picketed ****** at protests against local ordinances requiring people to be clothed in public. 

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The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, whom jurors found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and ******** on the immediate family member of a federal official. Prosecutors had asked for a 40-year prison term.

DePape was given 20 years for one count and 30 years for another count. The sentences will run concurrently. He was also given credit for the 18 months that he’s been in custody.

DePape 

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 that he broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home Oct. 28, 2022, intending to hold the speaker ******** and “break her kneecaps” if she lied to him. He also admitted to bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer after police showed up, saying his plan to end what he viewed as government *********** was unraveling.

The ******* on Paul Pelosi, who was 82 at the time, was 

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 just days before the midterm elections and sent 

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Defense attorneys argued DePape was motivated by his political beliefs, not because he wanted to interfere with Nancy Pelosi’s official duties as a member of Congress, making the charges against him invalid.

One of his attorneys, 

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 that DePape was caught up in *********** theories.

David Wayne DePape appears in San Francisco Superior Court for a preliminary hearing on state charges over the ******* on Paul Pelosi, husband of U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in San Francisco, California, November 15, 2022 in a courtroom sketch.

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At trial DePape, a ********* who moved to the U.S. more than 20 years ago, testified that he believed news outlets repeatedly lied about former President Donald Trump. In rants posted on a blog and online forum that were taken down after his arrest, DePape echoed the baseless, right-wing QAnon *********** theory that claims a cabal of ******-worshipping pedophiles runs the U.S. government.

DePape also told jurors he had planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and record his interrogation of the Democratic speaker, who was not at the home at the time of the *******, to upload it online.

Prosecutors said he had rope and 

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 with him, and detectives found body cameras, a computer and a tablet.

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 at the trial, recalling how he was awakened by a large man bursting into the bedroom and asking, “Where’s Nancy?” He said that when he responded that his wife was in Washington, DePape said he would tie him up while they waited for her.

“It was a tremendous sense of shock to recognize that somebody had broken into the house, and looking at him and looking at the hammer and the ties, I recognized that I was in serious danger, so I tried to stay as calm as possible,” Pelosi told jurors.

DePape is also charged in state court with ******** with a deadly *******, elder ******, residential burglary and other felonies. Jury selection in that trial is expected to start Wednesday.

Paul Pelosi suffered two head wounds in the *******, including a skull fracture that was mended with plates and screws he will have for the rest of his life. His right arm and hand were also injured.

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