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Jury awards Reiser's children $60 million in wrongful death trial
Jurors Tuesday ordered convicted wife-killer Hans Reiser to pay his two children a total of $60 million in damages for the loss of their mother. Reiser, 48, who is serving a term of 15 years to life in state prison for strangling his wife, 31-year-old Nina Reiser, at his home ...
Attorney seeks damages for Hans Reiser's children
An attorney who represents Hans Reiser's two children asked jurors Monday to order Reiser to pay millions of dollars of damages for depriving them of their mother, Nina Reiser, by murdering her. In his closing argument in Reiser's wrongful death trial in Alameda County Superior Court, the children's attorney, Arturo ...
Reiser's wrongful death trial wraps up, deliberations begin
Convicted wife killer Hans Reiser told jurors in his civil wrongful death trial Monday that he would like to have a chance to teach his children important lessons about life. In his closing argument, Reiser, who was acting as his own attorney, told the jury that his 12-year-old son Rory ...
Reiser admits wife never directly harmed their children
Convicted wife-killer Hans Reiser admitted in his wrongful death trial Thursday that his wife never directly harmed their children. His statement while testifying in his own defense appeared to undercut his claim at the beginning of the trial that he killed his wife, 31-year-old Nina Reiser, on Sept. 3, 2006, ...
Rieser civil trial set to begin Wednesday after jury selected
With jury selection completed Tuesday, opening statements will be presented Wednesday morning in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against convicted murderer Hans Reiser by his two children. Reiser, 48, is serving a term of 15 years to life in state prison for killing his wife, 31-year-old Nina Reiser, at his ...
Reiser children seek damages from father for mother’s murder
Jury selection began Monday of a multi-million-dollar civil suit filed by the two young children of a murdered Oakland Hills woman against their father who is in San Quentin after being convicted of the slaying. Hans Reiser was convicted of murdering his estranged wife, Nina, in September 5, 2006 after ...
EXCLUSIVE: Years After Trial, Reiser Talks Life In Prison
Mule Creek State Prison has a sensitive needs facility housing some of the state's most notorious inmates, and those who other inmates might want to harm.On a hot summer day, dozens of men were outside in the yard. But KTVU reporter Amber Lee found Hans Reiser inside.The 46-year-old convicted killer ...
Hans Reiser's Children File Wrongful Death Suit
Already serving a state prison term of 15 years to life for murdering his estranged wife Nina, computer engineer Hans Reiser has now been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his two children. The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court last Thursday, says that Rory Reiser, 8, ...
Reiser Says He Strangled Nina To Death
Computer engineer Hans Reiser told authorities he killed his estranged wife Nina on Sept. 3, 2006, by hitting her in the face and strangling her with a judo hold while their children played computer games one floor below, prosecutor Paul Hora and defense lawyer William DuBois said Friday. Hora and ...
Court Dismisses Dispute On Juvenile Court Jurisdiction Over Reiser Children
A state appeals court in San Francisco has dismissed a dispute over whether an Alameda County juvenile court judge can order the young children of convicted murderer Hans Reiser to return from Russia for child welfare evaluations. The Court of Appeal said in a decision issued Monday that the case ...
Reiser's Sentencing Postponed For Two Weeks
The sentencing for computer programmer Hans Reiser in connection with his first-degree murder conviction for killing his wife, Russian immigrant Nina Reiser, was postponed Wednesday for two weeks. Reiser, 44, was scheduled to be sentenced by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman today, but court officials said his hearing ...
Judge: Reiser 'Rolled The Dice' And Lost
The judge in Hans Reiser's murder trial said Wednesday that Reiser "chose to roll the dice" and lost by turning down a pretrial plea bargain that would have resulted in him only serving three years in prison and being released next May. Reiser, 44, was scheduled to be sentenced by ...
Reiser: 'Nina Had A Right To Live'
Speaking to the press for the first time since he led authorities to where he buried the body of his estranged wife Nina, Reiser gave an exclusive interview with KTVU Channel 2 News Tuesday night in which he claimed everything he did was out of love for his children and ...
Reiser Exchanged Body For Second Degree Conviction
After failing one lie detector examination where he tried to implicate his estranged wife Nina Reiser’s boyfriend in her murder, Hans Reiser admitted to killing her and led police to her buried remains in exchange for a reduction in his conviction to second degree murder, sources told KTVU.Defense attorney William ...
Onetime Reiser Lawyer Says Leading Police To Body 'A Mistake'
A lawyer who has represented convicted murderer Hans Reiser off and on for three years said Monday night that he thinks that Reiser made "a mistake" in apparently leading authorities to the location where he buried the body of his estranged wife Nina. John Fuery, who first represented Reiser in ...
Anatomy Of A Murder; DA Presents Reiser Evidence
Few people outside of an Oakland courtroom have seen the evidence that led a jury to convict Hans Reiser of murdering his wife Nina despite the fact that her body has never been found. KTVU takes an exclusive first look at the pieces of the puzzle that cracked the Reiser ...
Jurors Had Few Doubts Surrounding Reiser's Guilt
In one of the first interviews granted by a juror in the Hans Reiser case, juror No.7 -- an Oakland fifth grade school teacher -- told KTVU Tuesday that the computer expert's icy demeanor on the witness stand and his actions before the disappearance of his wife portrayed him as ...
Reiser Found Guilty Of First-Degree Murder
Jurors deliberating the mysterious case of a woman who vanished after taking her children to her estranged husband's house have come back with an answer: He did it. Hans Reiser, 44, bowed his head Monday after the jury convicted him of first degree murder in the death of Nina Reiser. ...
Analyst: Reiser Jury Ready To Convict
The jury of five women and seven men considering the fate of Oakland computer expert Hans Reiser ended their first full day of deliberations Wednesday without a verdict, but a veteran courtwatcher predicted one will come as eaely as next week.Former prosecutor and veteran legal analyst Michael Cardoza said if ...
Reiser Fate In Hands Of Jury
After months of testimony, including 10 days of Hans Reiser appearing in his own defense on the witness stand, one of the Bay Area's most-watched murder cases since the trial of Scott Peterson was handed off to jurors Tuesday.Following a morning in which prosecutor Paul Hora attempted to punch holes ...
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