Biography
Clinton Colby Ellerman was a Utah animal-liberation activist associated with Straight Edge. He received a two-year jail sentence for the July 1996 Holt Mink Ranch release and appeared on a March 1998 prisoner-support list.
In a separate prosecution over the March 11, 1997 bombing of the Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative in Sandy, he pleaded guilty on August 19, 1999 and agreed to testify. A University of Arkansas research report records a five-year sentence. His younger brother Douglas Joshua Ellerman was a separate defendant. Verified time-served totals are not available for Clinton’s cases.
Sources: https://www.deseret.com/1999/8/20/19461586/prosecutors-get-key-witness-in-fur-farm-bomb-trial-br-draper-man-pleads-guilty-to-making-5-devices/; https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/214217.pdf; https://www.animal-liberation.com/polipris.html
Birth-year sources
- Deseret News, August 20, 1999 — identifies Clinton Colby Ellerman as 22, supporting 1977 as his birth year.
- Los Angeles Times, January 29, 1998 — independently identifies Ellerman as 21 in the same prosecution.
