“I never meant to hurt him, only kidnap and potentially murder his wife!”
In his defense, the article does a much better job of explaining the apology than the headline
DePape said Tuesday he went to the couple’s home to talk to the former Speaker about alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 election, and that he planned to wear a costume and post his interrogation of her online. He claimed he was looking for the former Speaker and other targets to confess to their corruption.
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DePape’s attorneys have argued the charges do not fit as he was not trying to go after Nancy Pelosi because of her official duties.I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this guy’s attorneys are wrong.
Adversarial process at work. Each side works against each other as hard as they can within the bounds of law and the jury (or just judge, depending) decides.
It’s ridiculous, but the defense attorney working as hard as possible against the prosecution. If there’s even a tiny hope of it working it’s worth trying.
They’re still wrong because criminal law has the concept of transferred intent.
What in that article explains his apology better?
He switched from left to right because of a youtube video and then broke into a government official’s house with a deadly weapon.
He then used the deadly weapon when he knew he would be caught.
Fuck him.
His sad snff snff Rittenhouse dance in court is just to avoid life in prison.
Oh, look, it’s another non-apology “apology”:
“I’m sorry that he got hurt”
That’s what you say when you back into someone in a volleyball game or something. Paul Pelosi wouldn’t have been “hurt” (and ended up in hospital for most of a week) if a crazy guy hadn’t broken into his house, tied him up, and hit him with a hammer.
For the record, an actual and sincere apology for a major wrong consists of saying you’re sorry for what you did, you know what you did was wrong, that what you did affected the other person in negative ways, you apologize for the injury(s) suffered, you offer some kind of restitution or compensation, you promise to avoid the action in future, and you take concrete steps toward avoiding that action.
“He wasn’t my target and I’m sorry that he somehow mysteriously and inexplicably got injured when I broke into his house, tied him up, threatened him, and hit him with a hammer and I just don’t understand how that happened” is not an apology.
