Paul Pelosi assault suspect pleads not responsible to tried homicide and different state prices

David Wayne DePape, the suspected attacker within the assault of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, pleaded not responsible to all state prices in San Francisco courtroom Tuesday. 

DePape entered the courtroom in an orange leap go well with, his proper arm was in a black sling. Showing no emotion, he prevented eye contact within the courtroom room. 

The 42-year-old has been charged with tried homicide, residential housebreaking, assault with a lethal weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder and threats to a public official and their household. The Justice Department has additionally charged him with assault on the fast member of the family of a federal official and tried kidnapping of a federal official. 

According to courtroom filings, DePape broke into the Pelosi house in San Francisco and he encountered Paul Pelosi, whom DePape allegedly assaulted with a hammer, courtroom paperwork mentioned. The FBI affidavit filed within the federal case in opposition to DePape additionally mentioned that the San Francisco police “recovered zip ties in Pelosi’s bedroom and in the hallway near the front door of the Pelosi residence.” 

He instructed San Francisco police after his arrest that, “If Nancy [Pelosi] were to tell DePape the ‘truth,’ he would let her go, and if she ‘lied,’ he was going to break ‘her kneecaps,’” in order that she must be wheeled into Congress.   

DePape may face a long time behind bars if discovered responsible on the state and federal prices. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Monday mentioned the state and federal instances will work in tandem. 

Jenkins mentioned investigators imagine DePape supposed to homicide Paul Pelosi and that his actions have been politically motivated.

 “What is clear, based on the evidence that we have thus far, is this house and the speaker herself were specifically targets of the defendant,” Jenkins mentioned Monday. 

In a Monday evening assertion, the speaker mentioned her husband is “making steady progress on what will be a long recovery process.” 

DePape faces doubtlessly a long time behind bars if convicted of the state and federal prices. He is presently in county jail.