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    Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack believes conspiracies but didn't try to kidnap House speaker, attorney says

    by Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2023 4 minutes
    Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., waits for the start of U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address in the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The speech marks Biden's first address to the new Republican-controlled House.

    Defense attorneys for the man accused of bludgeoning the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer last year told jurors Thursday they acknowledge their client committed a crime and harbored "bizarre" far-right conspiracy theories, but they disputed federal charges that he attempted to kidnap the congresswoman and assaulted Paul Pelosi in connection with her official duties.

    In a lengthy opening argument, federal public defender Jodi Linker said David DePape, 43, broke into the Pelosis' home during the early morning of Oct. 28, 2022, as part of a broader plan to end corruption, human trafficking, child abuse and other offenses he believed were being committed by the upper

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