Accused Paul Pelosi attacker pleads not responsible to U.S. expenses By Reuters

(Reuters) – The Canadian man accused of breaking into the San Francisco house of U.S. Home of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and putting her 82-year-old husband, Paul, within the head with a hammer pleaded not responsible to federal prison expenses on Tuesday, native media reported.

David Wayne DePape, 42, was ordered held with out bond on federal expenses of assault and tried kidnapping and is scheduled to return to U.S. District Court docket in San Francisco on Nov. 30, native ABC-7 reported.

DePape pleaded not responsible on Nov. 2 to state expenses of tried homicide, assault with a lethal weapon, housebreaking, elder abuse, false imprisonment and threatening a public official.

He’s accused of gaining entry to the house of Paul and Nancy Pelosi on Oct. 28 and putting Paul Pelosi with a hammer, leaving him hospitalized with a cranium fracture and accidents to his hand and arm. Paul Pelosi has since been launched from a San Francisco space hospital.

Nancy Pelosi, additionally 82 and a Democrat second within the line of succession to the presidency, was in Washington on the night time of the assault.

DePape faces a most sentence of as much as 50 years in jail if discovered responsible of the federal expenses, though sentencing tips sometimes name for much less time behind bars. The state expenses carry a most jail sentence of 13 years to life.

Capitol Police officers have undertaken an “inside safety evaluation” to find out how its officers failed to note the assault regardless of having safety cameras educated on the Pelosi house.