A man who broke into Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home in 2022 and attacked her husband with a hammer has been convicted by a jury in a state trial, the Associated Press reported.
David DePape has already been convicted of federal crimes in the Oct. 28, 2022, break-in and assault of House Speaker Paul Pelosi and is serving a 30-year prison sentence in that case.
According to the Associated Press, a jury convicted DePape of first-degree theft, false imprisonment, threatening a family member of a public servant and kidnapping.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, DC at the time of the intrusion but was not injured.
Representative Paul Pelosi testified at his federal trial that on the day of the break-in, he was woken by a “very large man” armed with a hammer and zip ties and asked, “Where’s Nancy?”
While DePape was not looking, Paul Pelosi called 911 to notify the police. When officers arrived, DePape and Pelosi had their hands on the hammer DePape was swinging. The officer ordered the hammer to be dropped, and DePape struck Pelosi over the head.
Pelosi, who was 82 at the time, suffered a fractured skull.
In his closing arguments at the state trial, San Francisco public defender Adam Lipson told jurors that DePape had lived a solitary life before the break-in and attack and had “fell into a labyrinth of propaganda and conspiracy theories,” the Associated Press reported.
At the state trial, Judge Lipson told the jury that while DePape was guilty of three counts, the prosecution had not presented enough evidence to convict him of threatening the family of a public servant and kidnapping.
DePape was convicted in federal court in November of assault and attempted kidnapping and was sentenced in May.
Associated Press Contributed.
