SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!!! Nathan Knoerl's Court date SEPT 9TH

The Clerk has neither political nor emotional power to dismiss a pending criminal charge. All you'll do is prevent others whom the Clerk's office can actually help from getting through on the phone. How, exactly, does that help your cause?

did he get his vegan food yet?

Yeah. It depends on who he is and what is really going on here. The best case scenario for him in the public eye would be if they are quibbling over his using his birth vs. stepparents' last name Pope vs. Knoel. Just guessing.
My intuition is that sending out announcements right away to ask for vegan food could give the impression that he's an animal rights activist. It might be best to give the idea that he was an ordinary guy who happened to live at the house, and perhaps someone who didn't even live there but was friends with a roommate was the real individual who was making lists of professors.
Having people show up in court for support is effective though. When I went to court after the police raided the apartment of a downstairs neighbor for marijuana use (actually, another neighbor falsely called him in as a heroin dealer because he didn't like him, but they just found marijuana), I noticed that half the people at the morning arraignments have zero friends and family and they physically look all screwed up, and it would be easy for the court to just send them off to jail for warehousing. People who can dress well and have normal friends will be treated better.

Cabrillo student will stand trial for perjury
CABRILLO STUDENT'S ID FORM IN QUESTION
By Jennifer Squires
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Article Launched: 09/15/2008 09:34:34 PM PDT

A Cabrillo College student accused of perjury for checking the wrong box on a California Department of Motor Vehicles form in January 2007 will go to trial, a judge ruled Monday.

But Nathan Knoerl, also known as Nathan Pope, will be free on his own recognizance, Judge Samuel Stevens decided. Knoerl had been held on $100,000 bail — 20 times the normal amount for perjury — since his arrest by FBI agents in Southern California last month.

Police have not said why they requested the high bail when they obtained the arrest warrant in August.

However, Knoerl has lived in a Riverside Avenue house that was twice raided during the ongoing investigation into violent animal rights protests in Santa Cruz. No arrests have been made in the February home invasion attack and July fire bombings that targeted three University of California-Santa Cruz researchers.

"There is absolutely no connection between this case and the animal rights case," Knoerl's attorney, Doug Fox, said outside of court.

The perjury charge against Knoerl surfaced during the probe of the attacks and was pursued by a DMV inspector, who testified at Monday's hearing.

Inspector James Laughlin said Knoerl obtained a driver's license in September 2003, then applied for and received a state identification card under the name "Nathan Pope" in January 2007. On that application, Knoerl checked the "no" box in response to a question about possessing other government
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IDs in other names.

Prosecutor Barbara Rizzieri said that action was perjury.

Fox argued that his client didn't perjure himself because it's unclear if Knoerl would have been denied an ID card had he checked the "yes" box.

"The application itself is not false. It is who he is," Fox said.

He pointed out that identifying information was the same on both the driver's license and ID card. Fox also said his client has state-issued documents in both names, including a passport issued to "Nathan Pope" and signed by "Nathan Knoerl" with a note stating he also goes by the name Knoerl.

Knoerl's father's last name is Pope but his mother, Britni Knoerl, remarried when her son was 5 years old and he has used both surnames throughout his life, his mother testified.

Rizzieri said it's difficult to track Knoerl in the legal system due to his two surnames. The perjury case is filed under the name "Knoerl" while an April conviction for stealing textbooks is in the name "Pope." He is on probation for petty theft.

Perjury is a felony punishable by two to four years in state prison.

Knoerl was released from County Jail on Monday afternoon. He returns to court Sept. 30.