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Another sentence for Paul Pelosi’s hammer attacker raised concerns about unequal justice as a judge made clear his intention, “Mr. DePape will never get out of prison…”

Monday marked two years since David DePape was arrested after police arrived at the San Francisco home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) just before her husband suffered a skull fracture from the since-convicted burglar.

Following his federal sentencing in May that landed him 30 years in prison for assault concurrent with 20 years for attempted kidnapping, the maximum sentence for the charges, a June conviction from a San Francisco jury found him facing a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

“It’s my intention that Mr. DePape will never get out of prison, he can never be paroled,” said Judge Harry Dorman during the Tuesday hearing as DePape was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary, and false imprisonment of an elder by the state jury.

In her own statement on the sentencing, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in part, “Recognizing the seriousness of his crimes and the danger to democracy that Mr. DePape poses he is now being held accountable and will spend the rest of his life in prison… We can not allow political violence to become normalized and must take swift action to ensure there are serious consequences for those who will utilize violence to intimidate or stifle our elected leaders for doing what they have been elected to do.”

Reactions on social media were quick to call out the regularity with which violent criminals, including rapists, murderers, and even baby killers were released back into the community in the City by the Bay, reinforcing the notion of a two-tiered system of justice that put the likes of the Pelosis in a different category.

Included in the arguments from the court of public opinion was the concern that DePape was not in his right mind and therefore was in need of help more than to be trotted out as an example.

Prior to his sentencing, CNN reported that the convict had read from sheets of paper as he contended that the attorneys provided for his defense were conspiring against him, his ex-wife had been replaced by a body double, and Sept. 11 was an inside job.

“I’m a psychic. The more I meditate, the more psychic I get,” he told the court.

“This is a man who has always been a peaceful, law-abiding person up until his activation,” said San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Adam Lipson who sought a new trial for his client arguing that isolation had made him a victim of online propaganda.

“Everybody in the Bay Area said this guy was deranged and has mental problems… And they’re letting out murderers left and right and they just want to double punch this obvious mental patient… Not a coincidence,” argued one person as San Francisco assistant district attorneys Sean Connolly and Phoebe Maffei maintained the sentence reflected the seriousness of the crime. “There is no rejoicing in such cases. There are no winners.”

Meanwhile, as had been pointed out after DePape’s federal sentencing, when Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) had been attacked by a neighbor, leaving him in need of lung and hernia surgeries while suffering from broken ribs, the attacker’s initial 30-day sentence from a federal judge had been extended to a mere eight months of incarceration and six months of home detention.

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