David DePape, a Canadian man who in 2022 attempted to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and assaulted her husband, failed to overturn his conviction before a federal appeals court.
The judge overseeing DePape’s federal trial corrected her error when she failed to allow him to address the court ahead of his sentencing, three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled.
DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison last year after a jury found him guilty on two federal charges for attempting to kidnap a federal official and assaulting an immediate family member of ...
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