Juror: Hans Reiser Planned the Murder, ‘Thought It Out’

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Juror: Hans Reiser Planned the Murder, ‘Thought It Out’

OAKLAND, Calif. — As Juror No. 7, instructor Vince Dunn sat a measure or so absent from Hans Reiser, the UNIX technologist whom Dunn and 11 another panelists blameable of first-degree remove on Monday.

In an discourse weekday with Wired.com, the 61-year-old fifth-grade pedagogue recounted his sextet months of commission duty, whatever of which required movement incoming to the 44-year-old defendant’s unmediated correct during his 11 chronicle on the attestator stand.

A bailiff watches over Hans Reiser as he’s blameable of prototypal honor remove on Monday.
Courtroom sketch: Wired.com/Norman Quebedeau

“I was hunting at his eyes,” the metropolis Negro said in a ring interview. “He was faking it.”

After digit chronicle of deliberations, Dunn said the commission had over that Reiser had killed his wife, Nina Reiser, on Sept. 3, 2006. She was terminal seen at her unloved husband’s concern in the metropolis hills, when she dropped soured the divorcing couple’s digit teen children for conception of the Labor Day weekend. Reiser faces a dominion 25 eld to chronicle at sentencing, which is ordered for July 9.

In opting for first-degree remove — a selection reached on the test period of pace — the commission unloved the lesser alternatives of manslaughter or remove in the ordinal degree, uncovering that Reiser designed the ending in advance. Dunn said jurors arrived at the closing supported on grounds that Reiser had brawny motives for ending his wife, and his scheming behavior.

“It was a compounding of things,” Dunn said. “The fact that he was healthy to intend rid
of the body. It’s something you do if you premeditate … He
wasn’t an dynamical identify of a guy. He designed things. He researched
things.”

The motives were also clear, said the juror. The 31-year-old spouse had an intimacy with the defendant’s prizewinning friend. And chronicle before the murder, female goodness workers accused Reiser of existence more than $10,000 in arrears in child-support. Jurors also noted that Reiser was frantically occupation a topical leader in a effort to modify the kinsfolk suite system, which he blamed for initially gift flooded jural safekeeping to Nina, Dunn said.

“After a while, we started to wager how proud he was, how lowercase disposition he had for his wife,” Dunn said. “He was intellection this out.”

Dunn added: “It wasn’t digit azygos thing. But he had intellection it out.”

How does Dunn conceive the developer of the ReiserFS filesystem killed the care of his digit children?

“I conceive he obstructed her and at whatever saucer and stabbed her,” Dunn said. “That’s a bounteous question.”

Dunn additional that the seven-man, five-woman Alameda County commission was certain the litigator was blameable because of his possess testimony. The litigator lies, Dunn said, which certificated his guilt.

Taking the stand, Dunn said, “didn’t support him at all. That’s for sure. All of his explanations didn’t help.”

The litigator was not a misunderstood machine geek, said Dunn. His actions mass his wife’s leaving could not be explained by an overly-logical mind, or a habitual inattention to ethnic cues. His activity was a coverup, Dunn said.

The so-called “geek defense” was “a accumulation manoeuvre to intend us to accept it all,” Dunn said.

Among the guilt-like behavior, Dunn said, was that the litigator admitted he threw absent the traveller centre of his tiny Honda CRX and hosed downbound the exclusive of it as well. He also admitted he proven to conceal he car. (Reiser testified he distant the centre to rest in the automobile and hosed downbound the exclusive because it was dirty.)

Also, Dunn said, the defendant’s shelling from his ambulatory sound was distant when personnel detained him digit weeks before his Oct. 10 arrest. Nina Reiser’s shelling was distant from her radiotelephone when personnel unconcealed her contract exclusive her forsaken minivan a some miles from the defendant’s house. A radiotelephone without noesis cannot be derived to the close mobile-phone tower.

“The absent automobile centre was rattling harmful and the radiophone sound thing,” Dunn said. “He meet had set disposition for his wife.”

He said nobody on the commission believed that Nina Reiser would hit forsaken her digit children, as the litigator maintained. Hans Reiser said he accused his spouse of bilking his Namesys code company, and she fled backwards to country where the pair met.

“We every united that she was dead,” Dunn said. “We every united that she would not hit mitt her kids.”

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