Date: 03-19-2024

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United States of America v. Giovanni Z Pope

Case Number: 1:21-cr-00053

Judge: Deborah K. Chasanow

Court: The United States District Court for the District of Maryland (Baltimore County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Baltimore

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Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murder of His Mother
U.S. Citizen Sentenced to More Than 16 Years in Federal Prison for the Murder of His Mother, a Department of Defense Employee Working In Bahrain

After fatally stabbing his mother, Giovanni Pope cleaned her body and removed evidence of the murder from the apartment. He then left in his mother’s car. He was apprehended by Bahraini authorities on February 1, 2021. Pope admitted to law enforcement that he got a knife from the kitchen, went into the living room where his mother was seated, and fatally stabbed her. Pope further admitted that after killing his mother, he purchased an airline ticket to return to the United States, departing on the morning of February 2, 2021.

On February 11, 2021, Pope was ordered detained and removed from Bahrain to the United States pursuant to the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. On March 4, 2021, Pope was charged by indictment in the District of Maryland with one count of Murder while Employed by or Accompanying the Armed Forces Outside the United States.

United States Attorney Erek L. Barron and Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri commended the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI for their work in the investigation and thanked the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs for its assistance. Mr. Barron and Ms. Argentieri thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney P. Michael Cunningham and Trial Attorney Brian Morgan of the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section, who prosecuted the case.

Outcome:

Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 200 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release

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