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A judge’s process goof during the sentencing of the man convicted of kidnapping and assaulting then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband could force a do-over. “Today in Court at sentencing, the defendant did not allocute,” reads a document filed shortly after 44-year-old David DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison by Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley during the formal proceedings on Friday. ” Of course, he is not required to do so. However, the record does not state that he had the opportunity to do so.” Allocution is defined as a direct address between the judge and the convicted defendant …

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