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Conceding that she made a “clear error,” a federal judge said she will reopen the sentencing hearing for the man who beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer. The mistake: David DePape wasn’t allowed to address the court on Friday as required by law. US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said in a court filing over the weekend that a new hearing in San Francisco will be held May 28, the AP reports. Neither the prosecution nor the defense pointed out the error, the judge noted. “Nonetheless, it was the Court’s responsibility to personally ask Mr. DePape if he wanted to speak,” Corley wrote. The man w…