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Linux Guru Hans Reiser Demands New Murder Trial

• duskwuff 15y ago
  Seeing as how Reiser later led police to the place where he'd hidden his wife's body, I hardly see how a retrial could come to a different conclusion.
  • etherael 15y ago
    Looks like his argument is something along the lines of "I ended up having to kill her because the state wasn't taking notice of my many complaints against her. Therefore it's the state's fault and it's not fair that they should be put in a position of judgement over me for having taken action precipitated by their negligence" Kinda crazy. :/
    • duskwuff 15y ago
      Oh, ha, and it gets better/worse: part of the terms of his deal with the prosecutor for leading them to the body (and getting his conviction reduced to second-degree murder) was that he can't appeal anyway: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/BAIQ12KT15.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/... (Under the "I'm so sorry" heading.)
• RexRollman 15y ago
  I predict this will get laughed out of court.