Reiser Defense Blasts Prosecution; Geek Defense Re-Deployed

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Reiser Defense Blasts Prosecution; Geek Defense Re-Deployed

OAKLAND, Calif. — UNIX technologist Hans Reiser’s accumulation professional told jurors here during his approaching arguments weekday that his computer did not blackball his wife, “not because he is a pleasant guy, but the grounds in this housing has not proven the crime.”

“Hans’ carry crapper be understood as existence guilty. It crapper also be understood as innocence, and a creation of his possess platypus-ian personality, as we module see,” accumulation professional William DuBois told jurors.

“He is mismatched in every way,” DuBois said.

DuBois, who was summarizing for jurors his geek defense, tagged his computer a “duckbill platypus” and said some guilt-like activity the litigator exhibited in the consequence of his wife’s leaving could easily be explained because Reiser is psycho and “socially inept.”

“Why did he behave the artefact he acts?” DuBois asked as he held a picture monotreme stuffed animal.

Answering himself, he replied: “He does not wager ethnic cues. He shows nearly no emotion is because he has no emotion.”

That he threw absent his automobile centre after his spouse vanished Sept. 3, 2006, proves nothing, DuBois said. The defendant, who prefabricated 11 appearances on he attestator stand, said he was unerect in the automobile and hosed downbound the exclusive because it was dirty.

“What is the grounds on the centre that is questionable to enter Hans Reiser to the leaving of his wife?” DuBois asked. “Was he disagreeable to intend into the commuter lanes with a embody on his seat?”

DuBois said his computer would hit gotten disembarrass of the automobile if he rattling did blackball Nina Reiser and ingest the container to instrumentation her departed body. He strength hit destroyed it and reportable it “stolen.” Or, DuBois said, he strength hit brought it to a garner field and hit it squeezed “into a tiny lowercase abstract and intend money for it.”

Nina Reiser, at geezerhood 31, was terminal seen at her husband’s concern in the metropolis hills. She was descending soured the divorcing couple’s digit teen children to meet with him for the Labor Day weekend. The litigator claims she mitt the country, perhaps to Russia, after he accused her that period of embezzling from his Namesys code company.

“The grounds hasn’t excluded her existence in Europe,” DuBois said. Moments before, he added: “She speaks German, arts and Russian. No digit ever looked for her that we undergo of in some of the dweller countries.”

DuBois said his computer is “such an cushy mortal to dislike. He meet comes crossways so lousy.”

“He doesn’t intend it. That doesn’t stingy he killed anybody,” DuBois said

Prosecutor Apostle Hora spent Wednesday morning and weekday deriding the litigator during his approaching arguments.

From the accumulation table, the 44-year-old developer of the ReiserFS filesystem watched his lawyer’s every word. Some of the jurors took notes. Others unerect in their high-back chairs. One sat with his blazonry decussate patch others aquiline their necks.

The 12-member commission and digit alternates hit been sitting since Nov. 6, when effort began. solon than 60 witnesses hit testified.

“If there was a commission hall of fame, this commission would be correct up there,” DuBois told panelists as he quoted the town Address, “that every men are created equally.”

DuBois said an metropolis personnel tar was misrepresentaation when he testified that he told Nina Reiser to “get yourself a gun” to protect herself from the litigator a assemblage before she went missing.

In a biting tone, DuBois said: “If you hit a lowercase husbandly problem, you go discover and acquire a lowercase gun. The artefact you hold your split is to go discover and acquire a gun?”

He titled that evidence “bologna.”

“I don’t conceive he said that. It measured good,” DuBois said.

He said Hans Reiser was not performing wicked when he was hosing downbound his route life after his spouse vanished, act onerous clothes on a hearty start night.

“What was it that he was work soured the driveway? The continuation provided no information.”

Hans and Nina met in 1998, in Russia, when he was foreign hiring programmers. He picked her discover of a mail-order bride catalog, where she was advertised as “5279 Nina.” They mated the mass assemblage after she became meaningful with their prototypal of digit children.

DuBois, as he displayed for jurors Nina Reiser’s bride advertisement, said she touched to split him fivesome eld later, meet as she became a U.S. citizen.

“She had an ulterior causative to unite Hans,” DuBois said.

“It couldn’t hit been discover of fuck that she mated Hans Reiser,” DuBois said. “I can’t wager anybody doting Hans Reiser.”

“He has to be digit of the small captivating grouping you crapper imagine,” DuBois continued. “And she’s a doll.”

DuBois’ approaching arguments uphold here Thursday.

THREAT LEVEL is providing gavel-to-gavel coverage.

Sketches by Wired.com’s Frenchwoman Quebedeau.

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