Paul Pelosi Attack Suspect’s Lawyer Lays Out Wild Argument as Trial Kicks Off
The man accused of bludgeoning former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer in Oct. 2022 was driven by a “bizarre, misguided plan” based on the right-wing conspiracy theories with which he’d become obsessed in the months leading up to the brutal attack, according to his own defense lawyer.
The federal trial against David DePape opened on Thursday, with public defender Jodi Linker saying in her opening salvo that, though the evidence against her client was clear, the prosecution’s version of events was not the whole story.
“What matters is what brought David to that house—what David believed and what he intended,” she said. “This is not a whodunit. But what the government fails to acknowledge is the ‘whydunit,’ and the why matters in this case.”