There can be a benefit to having the accused sitting there hearing victim after victim after victim say this guy did this to me.

and Bay Area scholar and University of Michigan professor of womens and queer studies Dr.The 43-year-old DePape told jurors he went to the Pelosis home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government corruption.

A state trial has not been scheduled.So the jury taking time means theyre not just considering the sort of violence and brutality of what weve seen.Pelosi said he was able to grab his cellphone and called 911.

a Canadian citizen who was living in a garage in Richmond at the time of the attack.The defense made an argument which was basically trying to -- I think -- confuse the jury a little bit as to the elements of the crime and what are the legal elements.

His attorneys argued that he was not seeking to go after Nancy Pelosi because of her official duties as a member of Congress and so the charges did not fit.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosis husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer at the couples San Francisco mansion last year.Police are trying to figure out whether the substance in the bottle confirmed by scientists as Novichok came from the same batch used in the attack against the Skripals.

The bottle was found at Rowleys home in Amesbury.an accusation the Kremlin has denied.

Britains top counterterrorism officer.Rowley was in critical condition for more than a week.