The judge interrupted DePape repeatedly to ask if he wanted to address the jury’s verdict or his behavior on the night of the attack, but DePape ignored the overtures.

In the letter read in court by the victim’s daughter, Christine Pelosi, Paul Pelosi demanded the harshest sentence, saying the “last peaceful sleep” ended abruptly when the defendant violently broke into my home and entered my bedroom. and standing over my bed with a hammer and zip ties demanding to see my wife, asking, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ he shouted.

He said the attack left him with blows to his head, a metal plate, dizziness and nerve damage in his left hand. He said sleeping at home alone brought back memories of the attack.

In a statement following Tuesday’s sentencing, the Pelosi family said “legal justice has been served” after two difficult years.

“Today’s sentence of life without parole provides our Pope with some civil justice and we hope sends the message to others that political violence against elected officials or their family members will not be tolerated, disdained, or condoned,” the statement said. “Each of us must do our part to build a peaceful democracy.”

A federal jury previously found DePape guilty of assaulting a family member of a federal official and attempting to kidnap a federal official. He was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in May.