On Friday, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley sentenced David DePape to 20 years in prison for trying to kidnap Nancy Pelosi when he broke into her San Francisco home on Oct. 28, 2022, and to 30 years for attacking her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, the maximum terms for both crimes, to be served concurrently and with credit for the 18 months he has been in custody. But in a court filing over the weekend, the judge said it was “a clear error” for her not to give DePape a chance to make a statement before she imposed the sentence, as required by law, and she has set a new hearing for May 28. Neither prosecutors nor DePape’s defense attorneys called Corley’s oversight to her attention at Friday’s hearing. “It was, however, the court’s responsibility to personally ask Mr. DePape if he wished to speak,” the judge wrote. Hours after Corley pronounced the sentence, prosecutors filed a motion saying the court had failed to give DePape an opportunity to “speak or present any information in mitigation of the sentence,” as required by federal rules. They asked the judge to reopen the sentencing hearing to give him that chance, noting that the court has 14 days to correct a sentence that resulted from an error. DePape’s defense attorney, however, said he objects to bringing his client back to court, according to the prosecution motion. Defense attorneys for the man who attacked Paul Pelosi filed a notice of appeal shortly after Friday’s sentencing. The judge gave them until Wednesday to respond to her order reopening the sentencing hearing. A jury in November found DePape, 44, guilty of attempted kidnapping of a U.S. official and assault on an immediate family member of a U.S. official. The prosecution had asked for a 40-year prison term. The attack on Paul Pelosi, then 82, was captured on police body camera video just days before the 2022 midterm elections and sent shock waves through the political establishment. Paul Pelosi suffered two skull fractures, one of which required surgery to implant plates and screws that will remain in his head for the rest of his life. His right arm and hand were also injured. Before the sentencing, one of DePape’s attorneys, Angela Chuang, urged the judge to consider the prison terms being handed down to participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “The five most serious sentences given to individuals convicted of seditious conspiracy, for literally conspiring to overthrow the government, range from 15 to 22 years,” Chuang said. Judge Corley replied that the analogy to the Jan. 6, 2021, events was not an adequate comparison to the seriousness of breaking into the private residence of an elected official. The home invasion could have a chilling effect on people running for office in the future, she said, adding that she believes DePape remains a danger to society. “I have not seen anything that suggests that if given the opportunity, he would not again act on his delusional beliefs,” she said. DePape admitted during his trial that he broke into the Pelosis’ home on Oct. 28, 2022, intending to hold the then-speaker of the U.S. House hostage and force her to recant what he believed were her lies about corruption. “If she lied, I was going to break her kneecaps,” he said of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was not home at the time. The intruder also admitted striking Paul Pelosi with a hammer when police arrived because his plan to root out what he saw as government corruption was failing. At trial, DePape, a Canadian citizen who moved to the United States more than 20 years ago, said he believed the news media were lying repeatedly about former President Donald Trump. In postings on a blog and an online forum that were taken down after his arrest, DePape echoed the right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles runs the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said DePape is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and will be deported after he completes his prison sentence. See Also: Man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband sentenced to 30 years in prison (Portuguese version)