A 44-year-old Berkeley man has been sentenced in state court to life in prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2022, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

A San Francisco Superior Court jury in June convicted David DePape of charges including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree residential burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, threatening the life of a family member of a public official and dissuading a witness by force or threat for attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer at the Pelosis’ San Francisco home on Oct. 28, 2022.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.