David DePape, the man accused of attacking the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in October, was cleared to stand trial by a judge Wednesday after multiple evidence was presented in a San Francisco Superior Court. .
DePape was arrested on October 28 for allegedly attacking Paul Pelosi inside the San Francisco home he shares with the Speaker of the House, who was in Washington, DC, at the time.
A San Francisco police officer who came to Pelosi’s residence displayed a hammer allegedly used by David DePape in an attack on Paul Pelosi.
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A preliminary hearing was held on the matter Wednesday, after which Judge Stephen Murphy ruled that sufficient evidence had been presented for DePape to stand trial on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, abuse of elderly, false imprisonment of an elderly person and threats to a family member of a public official.
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DePape has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges, which also include allegations that he attempted to kidnap the Speaker of the House.
Prosecutors played back body camera footage and the 911 call made by Paul Pelosi that night. They also presented the hammer that DePape allegedly used to hit Pelosi.
The hammer allegedly wielded by David DePape in an attack on Paul Pelosi is seen during Wednesday’s preliminary hearing in San Francisco.
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Lt. Carla Hurley, who interviewed DePape for an hour on the day of the attack, testified Wednesday that the defendant told her about other people he wanted to target, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, actor Tom Hanks and Hunter Biden, one of the Presidents Joe. Biden’s children. Hurley did not say whether police had any evidence of a plot against her.
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Part of the 911 recording played in court included a clip in which Paul Pelosi told a dispatcher, “There is a gentleman here waiting for my wife, Nancy Pelosi, to return.” Pelosi also said that he did not know who the man was.
“I don’t know who it is. He tells me not to do anything. He tells me to hang up the phone and do what he says,” Pelosi said, when another voice chimes in: “My name is David.”
David DePape, left, charged in the hammer attack that injured Paul Pelosi, seen far right with his wife, Nancy Pelosi, in his first public appearance since the attack.
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Body camera footage shown in the courtroom allegedly showed DePape punching Paul Pelosi.
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San Francisco Police Officer Kyle Cagney testified that it took him and his partner about four minutes to respond to Pelosi’s residence. After ringing the doorbell, the door was flung open, Cagney said, and there were two men inside holding the same hammer.
The officers asked what was going on, and according to Cagney, DePape said “nothing,” before seizing control of the hammer and striking Pelosi over the head.
Officers were reportedly heard yelling at DePape to drop the hammer, when he said, “uh, no.”
He was then tackled by the two officers, and Pelosi fell to the ground where she lay face down and motionless, apparently unconscious in a pool of blood, Cagney testified.
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Cagney then removed from an evidence bag what is believed to be the hammer used in the attack.
DePape’s next court date is scheduled for December 28.
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
