State charges included kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of husband of Nancy Pelosi

State charges included kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of husband of Nancy Pelosi

The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.

A San Francisco jury in June found David DePape guilty of charges including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder.

Before issuing the sentence, Judge Harry Dorfman dismissed arguments from DePape’s attorneys that he be granted a new trial for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi, who was 82 years old at the time.

“It’s my intention that Mr DePape will never get out of prison, he can never be paroled,” Dorfman said while handing out the punishment.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
    783·
    6 days ago

    “This is a man who has always been a peaceful, law-abiding person up until his activation,” Lipson said.

    Oh fuck all the way off, asshole. His brain was rotted from right-wing media- there was no secret hidden sub-programming which could be turned on with a code word.

    Also, fuck you again. Everyone is a peaceful, law-abiding person until they decide to break the law.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
      14·
      6 days ago

      People with certain mental illnesses are far more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other such nonsense. It doesn’t excuse what he did but it’s important to recognize this. Our society is a much more dangerous place for these kinds of vulnerable individuals than it was before mass media, simply because of the huge amount of exposure they have to harmful materials.

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
        41·
        6 days ago

        I think Europe has been a bad place for them for a long time, because the church has put religious paranoia into their heads any also was petty terrible to them.

        The only societies I can think of where they had a place were some indigenous American ones, where there was a role for people who are in connection with the spirit world.