A man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home has now been given a life term without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial. The San Francisco jury found the man guilty of charges including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary, and false imprisonment of an elder.
The judge rejected defense attorneys' arguments for a new state trial and sentenced the man to life for the kidnapping conviction. The victim, Paul Pelosi, who was 82 at the time of the attack, suffered head wounds, including a skull fracture that required medical intervention.
