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Nathan Pope

AKA: Nathan Knoerl
Released
Date of birth:1982
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#07154-070
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
5 Years 7 Months 12 Days
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Animal Rights Activism
Nathan Pope

Biography

Nathan Pope, age 26, was one of the AETA 4 - four young people indicted in 2009 under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act for protest activity targeting University of California researchers. The indictment was dismissed by the court for failing to specify the conduct.

Photograph identification October 13, 2026: The photograph is reproduced from the Center for Constitutional Rights' 2011 annual report, printed page 42 (PDF page 44), visually inspected together with its caption. The source explicitly identifies, from left: Nathan Pope, Adriana Stumpo, Maryam Khajavi and Joseph Buddenberg, CCR clients in United States v. Buddenberg. Nathan Pope is at the far left. The full source photograph is preserved without cropping or retouching; conversion from the embedded PDF image to web-compatible PNG does not invent or reconstruct facial details.

Case

Charges: 18 USC 371 conspiracy and 18 USC 43 Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - AETA 4 prosecution
Arrested: Feb 19, 2009
Incarcerated: Feb 19, 2009
Released: Oct 1, 2014
Sentence: Indictment dismissed
Convicted: No