David DePape apologizes for attacking Paul Pelosi and gets 30-year sentence – again
by Guardian staff and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6N48J)
DePape, who didn't get to speak in court in original trial on assault of Nancy's Pelosi's husband, gets no change to original sentence
The man who was convicted of assaulting then US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in 2022 was re-sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, with no change in the original sentence after the case was reopened so he could speak during his sentencing hearing, local news reported.
David DePape was originally sentenced to 30 years in prison on 17 May for forcibly entering Pelosi's home in San Francisco early on 28 October 2022 and clubbing her husband, Paul, in the head with a hammer in a politically motivated attack.
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