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Defense: Nina Reiser Is In Hiding
With the clock winding down on closing arguments, defense attorney William Du Bois Monday once again portrayed missing East Bay mother Nina Reiser as a woman on the run, not the victim of a heinous murder.Oakland computer expert Hans Reiser is on the trial for his estranged wife's murder, but ...
Reiser Prosecution Wraps Up With An Emotional Twist
As his closing argument was wrapping up Wednesday, prosecutor Paul Hora delivered a chilling emotional blow to the Hans Reiser defense strategy, imploring jurors to think of the couple's two children when they decided his fate.Reiser is accused of killing his estranged wife, Nina, in September 2006 -- robbing the ...
Reiser Prosecutor: 'We Know Enough'
A prosecutor in the trial of a software programmer accused of killing his estranged wife showed jurors a photograph of the couple's two young children as he summed up his case on Tuesday. With no body ever found, lawyers for the defendant, 44-year-old Hans Reiser, have suggested the children's mother, ...
Reiser Breaks Down In Tears During Testimony
Computer engineer Hans Reiser broke down in tears on the witness stand Wednesday as he recalled his two young children being taken away from him five days after his estranged wife Nina disappeared on Sept. 3, 2006. In his nine full days of testimony in his trial on charges that ...
Combative Reiser Fights With Judge And Prosecutor
Computer engineer Hans Reiser quarreled with the prosecutor and the judge in his murder trial tuesday when he tried to explain how his missing wife Nina's blood wound up on a post in his house in the Oakland hills.In his eighth day on the witness stand in his trial on ...
Judge Denies Reiser's Second Motion For Mistrial
A judge Wednesday denied a motion for a mistrial by Oakland computer engineer Hans Reiser in his trial on charges he murdered his estranged wife Nina, who disappeared on Sept. 3, 2006. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman said prosecutor Paul Hora did nothing wrong last month when he ...
Reiser Admits To Attempting To Hide Car
A judge issued a stern rebuke on Thursday to a software programmer accused of killing his wife, saying his demeanor on the witness stand, which has included rambling answers and objections to questions, was disrespectful to the court. After a morning in which Hans Reiser insisted on giving complex responses ...
Reiser Remains Confrontational On The Stand
Accused wife-slayer Hans Reiser verbally sparred with the prosecution for a second straight day Wednesday, claiming his cross-examination was requiring him to recall details "beyond my powers to remember."In his sixth day on the witness stand in his trial on charges that he murdered his estranged wife Nina, a contentious ...
Reiser Spars With Prosecutor During Cross-Examination
A software programmer charged with killing his estranged wife, sparred with a prosecutor as cross-examination in his murder trial began Tuesday, saying the idea that he hasn't been forthcoming with information is "ridiculous." The tone of the exchange was set early as Hans Reiser objected to a question from prosecutor ...
Reiser Claims Missing Wife Was An Embezzler
Software programmer Hans Reiser testified Monday he had nothing to do with his estranged wife's disappearance. Reiser, 44, said he has tried to figure out what may have happened to Nina Reiser, who hasn't been seen since dropping the couple's two children off at Reiser's house on Sept. 3, 2006. ...
Reiser Said He Called Nina An Embezzler
Computer engineer Hans Reiser testified Monday that one of the last things he said to his estranged wife Nina before she disappeared on Sept. 3, 2006, was to accuse her of being an embezzler. In his fourth day on the witness stand in his trial on charges that he murdered ...
Emotional Reiser Testifies About His Children
A software programmer on trial in the death of his wife showed a flash of emotion as he talked about having his children taken into protective custody. Hans Reiser's eyes reddened and his voice quavered Thursday after defense attorney William Du Bois asked him how he reacted to losing the ...
Reiser Judge Blocks Sadomasochism Testimony
A judge Wednesday denied a defense request that Hans Reiser, who is on trial for killing his estranged wife, be allowed to testify about the lifestyle of a former boyfriend of Nina Reiser who was allegedly "heavily into drugs and sadomasochism." In a short but heated hearing outside the presence ...
Reiser Says Marrying Wife Nina Was 'A Mistake'
During a full day on the witness stand computer engineer Hans Reiser did not express any concern about the disappearance of his estranged wife Nina 18-months ago and instead said Monday that marrying her was a mistake. While being questioned during a trial that charges him with Nina's murder, Reiser, ...
Statements By Hans Reiser's Son Scrutinized During Testimony
The reliability of statements and drawings by the young son of murder defendant Hans Reiser was subjected to intense scrutiny at Reiser's trial Thursday. The often arcane testimony about child psychology was overshadowed by word from his attorney that Reiser, a 44-year-old computer engineer, probably will take the witness stand ...
Reiser Testimony Delayed Due To Witness Dispute
A dispute about what a clinical psychologist can tell jurors in Hans Reiser's high-profile trial on charges he murdered his estranged wife Nina has delayed Reiser's highly-anticipated testimony in the case. Reiser, a 44-year-old computer engineer accused of murdering Nina though her body was never found, had been expected to ...
Another Bizarre Twist At Reiser Murder Trial
The trial of computer engineer Hans Reiser on charges that he murdered his estranged wife Nina has taken another bizarre twist with a key defense witness sleeping in a courthouse hallway and the playing of a video of the couple's unusual wedding ceremony. A day after Reiser's father, Ramon Reiser, ...
Testimony At Reiser Trial Takes Strange, Sordid Turn
The Russian mafia, sadomasochism, mental disorders and an allegedly unwanted child were all topics of testimony Wednesday in the trial of Oakland computer engineer Hans Reiser's trial on charges that he murdered his estranged wife Nina. Reiser's father, 65-year-old Ramon Reiser of Seattle, said he told Hans that the Russian ...
Reiser's Defense Case Gets Off To Rocky Start
The defense of Hans Reiser against charges that he murdered his wife Nina got off to a rocky start Tuesday with the judge in the case threatening to throw Reiser out of the courtroom and admonishing his lawyer for asking improper questions. When Reiser, a 44-year-old computer engineer, whispered to ...
Mom's Testimony Caps Reiser Prosecution Case
Concluding with three days of at times emotional testimony by Nina Reiser's mother, the prosecution in the murder case against her estranged husband has rested it case after portraying the victim as a dedicated mother who thought she had found her "prince" when she married Hans Reiser in 1998.Under intense ...
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