Man who attacked Pelosi's husband with hammer gets 30 years in prison

A screenshot from a police body camera video shows David DePape holding onto Paul Pelosi, the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , in the couple’s house on Oct 28, 2022, in San Francisco District Attorney/Handout via REUTERSThe man who broke into former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's home in 2022 and assaulted her husband with a hammer was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

DePape, 44, confronted Pelosi's husband, Paul, and clubbed him over the head with a hammer before police who had been called to the scene were able to subdue the attacker. A jury found DePape guilty in November of attempting to kidnap a federal officer and assaulting an immediate family member of a federal officer.

File photo of David DePape in Berkeley, California, on Dec 13, 2013. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in jail on May 18, 2024, for attacking the husband of Nancy Pelosi with a hammer. Prosecutors had asked US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco federal court to sentence DePape, a Canadian national living illegally in the US, to 40 years in prison.

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