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This is something that seemed to take an awfully long time to resolve considering that it looked, at least initially, as if it should have been an open-and-shut case. Nearly two years after the original incident, madman David DePaper was found guilty on Friday of all additional charges related to his hammer attack on Paul Pelosi in the former Speaker’s San Francisco mansion. (How anyone affords a mansion like that on a public servant’s salary will remain a topic for another day.) The jury began deliberations on Thursday and returned with the guilty verdicts the next day. The list of charges is quite serious and DePape could potentially be facing life in prison without parole, but sentencing hasn’t even been scheduled yet. There seems to be no question that he actually did what he was accused of, but there are still so many questions hanging over the original incident that it may be a mystery for the ages. (ABC News)
A California jury has found David DePape guilty on all charges in the state trial over the hammer attack against Paul Pelosi, following his federal conviction for the 2022 assault, prosecutors said.
The jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco, with the court dark on Wednesday, before reaching a verdict Friday afternoon.
DePape, 44, was charged with false imprisonment of an elder by violence or menace, residential burglary, threatening a family member of a public official, dissuading a witness by force or threat and aggravated kidnapping, which carries a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Keep in mind that David DePape was already sentenced twice for this crime last month.
