"Moshe Goldfarb" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:30 -0400, josh fickler wrote:
>
>> <quote>
>> Fed up with murder defendant Hans Reiser's long, rambling, normally
>> unresponsive answers, Judge Larry Goodman sternly warned Reiser he would
>> no
>> longer tolerate his behavior.
>>
>> "Your attitude to the court is disrespectful. Your attitude to this court
>> is
>> condescending," Goodman said Thursday, shortly after dismissing jurors
>> for
>> lunch. "I will no longer tolerate it. You are not in the position to
>> control
>> this court. You are not in the position to control the questioning or the
>> actions of your counsel."
>>
>> The tongue-lashing from Goodman -- known more for running a casual
>> courtroom
>> than being a strict disciplinarian -- came after the judge called for a
>> five-minute sidebar, asking both attorneys to come to his chambers after
>> Reiser failed to coherently answer a question from prosecutor Paul Hora.
>> </quote>
>>
>>
>> http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_8649286
>>
>>
>>
>> <quote>
>> Reiser admits missing wife was low priority
>>
>> Hans Reiser acknowledged at his murder trial Thursday that he called his
>> estranged wife just once after she disappeared in September 2006 and
>> didn't
>> care much at the time about how his young children were doing.
>>
>> He conceded, however, that he never called her again to see how the
>> children
>> were doing or whether they had been picked up.
>>
>> "I just didn't care about it very much," Reiser said in a response that
>> caused Hora to raise his eyebrows.
>>
>> He added, "I'm an inconsiderate a-hole," repeating a phrase he has used
>> several times during the trial to explain his behavior after his wife
>> disappeared.
>> </quote>
>>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../BA5HVN9TV.DTL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <quote>
>> Reiser Admits Trying to Hide Car From Police
>>
>> Linux guru Hans Reiser conceded in open court here Thursday that he was
>> trying to hide his car from the police in the aftermath of his estranged
>> wife's disappearance.
>>
>> The 44-year-old developer of the ReiserFS filesystem said he was in the
>> tiny
>> town of Manteca, about 50 miles southeast of Oakland, and was searching
>> for
>> storage lockers both to live in and to hide his car two weeks after his
>> wife, Nina Reiser, vanished.
>>
>> "You were there to hide your car?" prosecutor Paul Hora demanded.
>>
>> "Yes."
>>
>> The defendant scrubbed the storage locker idea because "it cost too much
>> to
>> hide my car from the police." He said the rent was $140 per month.
>> </quote>
>>
>> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...-admits-t.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <quote>
>> The Hans Reiser murder trial resumed here Wednesday with the defendant
>> fumbling on the witness stand.
>>
>> "Are you just making these things up?" Alameda County prosecutor Paul
>> Hora
>> asked at one point.
>>
>> Hans Reiser underwent a second day of grueling cross-examination by Hora
>> who
>> claims the Linux programmer killed his wife, Nina Reiser.
>>
>> "I am not consistent in my thinking," the defendant testified.
>>
>> "That's the hallmark of lying, isn't it?" Hora replied.
>>
>>
>>
>> Prosecutor Hora maintains the defendant transported his dead wife's body
>> in
>> the vehicle. That's why it was scrubbed down and why the seat was gone,
>> Hora
>> maintains.
>>
>> "Ever heard of shampooing the car?" Hora asked.
>>
>> "It costs money," the defendant responded.
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...-fumbling.html
>
> Incredible!!
From what I've read about the trial and Reiser's testimony, I think he did
it and the jury is going to convict him.
A couple of reasons:
* Reiser is coming across as arrogant and abrasive. The judge admonished him
for this and the jury has certainly noticed.
* The day his wife "disappeared" she was scheduled to pickup the kids from
school. But instead Hans shows up, acts very strange and nervous, and picks
up the kids. How'd he know the wife wasn't going to be there?
* Phone records show that he used to call his wife every day. In all the
months since she went missing... he only tried to call her once.
* He admitted on the stand that he was planning on hiding the car with the
missing passenger seat from the police. That's never a positive sign.
* His "excuse" for the missing seat is that he liked to sleep in his car so
this gave him more room. Quite a coincidence that he decided to remove the
seat at the same time that his wife's body went missing.
I hope for all citizens that justice will prevail here. But things aren't
looking very good for him at the moment.
> It's like being a fly on the wall of the typical Linux basement dweller!!
>
> The murder aside (obviously, this is for Kier), the rest of this stuff is
> classic Linux zealot!!
>
> http://adequacy.org/stories/2001.11.26.101258.24.html
Hans Reiser is basically every linux stereotype rolled into one.
>
>
>
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> Moshe Goldfarb
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