18:59 
Tue, 2nd December 2008
Reiser Hard Drives Don’t Map to Murder
OAKLAND, Calif. — A machine forensic doc testified in the Hans Reiser remove effort here weekday that the defendant’s digit hornlike drives he hid from the polity did not include grounds linking the UNIX technologist to the 2006 leaving of his unloved wife, Nina Reiser.
“Did you specifically encounter anything pertaining to the remove of the defendant’s wife?” accumulation professional William DuBois asked Kyle Ritter, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department technician.
“No,” Ritter replied. He also said his 4.5-day communicating of the drives “did not invoke up some grounds attendant to this case.”
On Apr 2, DuBois brought the two, 80-gig hornlike drives to suite after the 44-year-old litigator testified he distant them from his machine before personnel searched his metropolis hills house. Reiser gave them to his attorney DuBois, who entered them as evidence.
Ritter, who said he reviewed a assets of the accumulation on the drives, over there were no magnitude erasers.
“I didn’t wager a aggregation of accumulation that was overwritten,” Ritter said.
Jurors seemed untouched and took few, if some notes. Some yawned patch others sat with their blazonry decussate in a effort that began Nov. 6 and is due to hold within days.
The developer of the ReiserFS filesystem testified early he had distant the drives because he was psycho and did not poverty the polity to analyse his data.
Nina Reiser’s terminal famous whereabouts were at Hans Reiser’s concern on Sept. 3, 2006. She brought the divorcing couple’s digit teen children to meet with their ascendant for the Labor Day weekend.
The litigator had testified he saw Nina Reiser intend absent from the house, and said she forsaken the children after he accused her of bilking his Namesys code company. The polity said she never mitt the metropolis hills act alive.
Ritter testified there were recording games and cartoons on the drives, business aggregation and e-mails between Hans and Nina who were undergoing a taste split and safekeeping battle. The files mostly were dated between 2003 and 2006, Ritter said.
Ritter testified that his forensic tools could feature most of the partitions on the hornlike drives but not the thousands of files stored in Reiser4 FS.
“Reiser3 is allocated, but not Reiser4,” Ritter said.
Ritter described the Reiser4 as “one of the newest enter systems discover there.” The filesystem is not harmonious “with some of the forensic tools we use.”
Still, keyword searches in that unmapped accumulation is how Ritter institute e-mails and another accumulation that he said was not adjuvant in functionary Apostle Hora’s housing against Hans Reiser.
The forensic doc said he required a small fivesome weeks or individual to adequately analyse the drives but was presented inferior than a week.
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- Jury Can Consider Lesser ‘Manslaughter’ Verdict, Reiser Judge Rules
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- Another Hans Reiser How-To Wiki: When Not to Go Camping
- Hans Reiser Defense Accusing Police of Bias
- Selected ‘Reiserisms’ of Hans Reiser: The Non-Annotated Version
- Hans Reiser Proclaiming His Innocence During Ninth Day on Stand
- Hans Reiser Explaining ‘Construction Project’ and Nina’s Blood
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