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 ofĀ Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in theirĀ California home was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.

AĀ San Francisco jury in June found David DePapeĀ guilty of chargesĀ including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder.

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

ā€œItā€™s my intention that Mr DePape will never get out of prison, he can never be paroled,ā€ Dorfman said while handing out the punishment.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    ā€œThis is a man who has always been a peaceful, law-abiding person up until his activation,ā€ 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.

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      People with certain mental illnesses are far more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other such nonsense. It doesnā€™t excuse what he did but itā€™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.

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        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.