The man who broke into former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) home in San Francisco and violently attacked her husband was convicted Friday of aggravated kidnapping in a separate case.
A jury found David DePape guilty of first-degree robbery, false imprisonment of an elderly person, threatening a family member of a public official and dissuading a witness, the Associated Press reported.
His aggravated kidnapping conviction requires life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Earlier this month, a San Francisco judge granted a request from DePape’s defense attorneys to dismiss some of the most serious state charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse.
DePape’s public defender, Adam Lipson, said he was disappointed with Friday’s verdict and that the defendant plans to appeal, the AP reported.
The lawyer argued that the new aggravated kidnapping charge was “vindictive” because it was handed down after the prosecution discovered that the attempted murder charge was being dropped.
Last month, in a separate federal trial, DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the October 2022 attempted murder of Paul Pelosi.
Lipson told the AP that Friday’s ruling means DePape will serve 30 years in federal prison and then be transferred to a prison in California, where he will “spend the rest of his life.”
Pelosi’s husband narrowly survived the attack, during which he was hit several times in the head with a hammer. DePape planned to kidnap the then-House speaker, but she was in Washington.
DePape was found guilty in the federal case in November 2023.
During the trial, he admitted that Paul Pelosi was never his target and said he was sorry he was hurt. DePape said in his testimony that his political views changed after reading online comments about former President Trump.
The defendant attributed the violence to a poor mental state and said he has since reconnected with his family and improved mentally.
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