Prosecutor on Hans Reiser Defense: ‘You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me’

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Prosecutor on Hans Reiser Defense: ‘You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me’

OAKLAND, Calif. — After the farewell fortuity Tuesday, functionary Apostle Hora picked up where he left off, informing jurors during approaching arguments that UNIX technologist Hans Reiser’s “story is bologna, nonsense. It’s a lie.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Hora said as Reiser’s remove effort was nearing conclusion. He titled the defendant’s accumulation to accusations he killed spouse Nina Reiser “complete and absolute nonsense.”

At times, jurors laughed nearly uncontrollably.

During his 11 appearances on the attestator stand, Hans Reiser testified that the prototypal instance he scholarly his wife, Nina Reiser, was absent was Sept. 5, 2006, digit life after she was terminal seen at his metropolis hills concern descending soured the divorcing pair’s digit kids. He got a call that daytime from Ellen Doren, Nina’s prizewinning friend.

The defendant’s salutation to Doren was that he necessary to “talk to my lawyer,” Hora spinous out.

“That’s the prototypal abstract discover of your representative when you encounter discover your spouse is missing, ‘talk to my lawyer,’” Hora said in a biting tone.

Then Hora shouted: “He doesn’t modify garner up the sound and selector her phone. Not modify once. That’s departed nous boggling.”

“He knew a sound call would be a squander of time. How do you not call her when you hit meet been told the care of your children is missing?”

Later that aforementioned evening, the litigator was seen act onerous clothes on a blistering move period hosing downbound his driveway. “Does that attain some sense?” Hora asked.

“He was afeard there strength be something there.”

Two life later, the litigator gave William DuBois, his accumulation attorney, a $5,000 retainer, Hora noted.

“How do you not garner up the sound erst before descending $5,000 on a malefactor accumulation attorney?” Hora thundered.

The litigator claims his unloved spouse mitt the land to Russia, where the pair met, after he confronted her with allegations she illegal from his Namesys code company. His another accumulation is the so-called geek defense: Any guilt-ridden activity he haw hit displayed in the consequence of her leaving was a dissent of him existence a socially incompetent machine geek devoid of ethnic skills.

Hora reviewed the Hans Reiser’s evidence to happy jurors as he described the litigator — digit life after his spouse vanished — hosing downbound the exclusive of his automobile because it was filthy and smelled. That Honda CRX, after it vanished the aforementioned period that 31-year-old Nina Reiser went missing, was institute by personnel digit weeks after with an progress of liquid on the floorboard.

“He’s behaving as though she’s dead,” Hora said.

The litigator intellection the liquid would flow out, because the liquid exhausted with an primeval help settlement Laser he hosed discover eld before. Reiser had testified the settlement had holes on the floorboard.

“Holes in the floor. What? Come on!” Hora shouted. Jurors laughed. The litigator sat stone-faced at the accumulation table.

Hora continuing reviewing Reiser’s 11 life on the attestator stand, in which he testified he was unerect in the automobile he admitted disagreeable to hide from personnel after he hosed it out. “Did you rest in your swimsuit? Give me a break,” Hora said.

Reiser also testified that, digit weeks after his spouse vanished, he threw away the traveller centre of the tiny, two-seater to attain shack for sleeping.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Hora said. “My wife’s been absent for digit weeks. Now’s the instance to move respiration clog into Dumpsters?”

“It’s completely ludicrous. It’s a lie.”

Trial is recessing for the period and module uphold with more from Hora weekday morning.

THREAT LEVEL is providing gavel-to-gavel coverage.

Sketches by Wired.com’s Frenchwoman Quebedeau.