Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body

dlgeek writes "The story of Hans Reiser is well known to all Slashdotters by now. Some still placed doubts about the conviction, stating that he might be innocent. It now seems that all doubt has been quelled, since Alameda County District Attorney Thomas Orloff has revealed that Hans Reiser will disclose the location of Nina's body for a reduced sentence. The deal is not yet finalized, though. 'There's been some overtures,' Orloff said, 'But everything is in its preliminary stage.' The deal would reduce his conviction from first degree to second degree murder. In addition, an anonymous source close to the situation said that 'the only real leverage he has is if he can provide a body. He really doesn't have any options left. Even if he won a retrial somehow, he'd likely be convicted.'"

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fuck

[hav0x]

I totally didn't see this one coming.
Always thought the guy was inocent.
Plus this is a really dumb move ... even if convicted I bet the parole board would take into consideration the lack of a body, and hard evidence for that matter, just a few years into his sentence.
Really dumb move especially for a sociopath.

Re:*sigh*

[gplus]

ReiserFS. A real Killer Application. :-)

Hans who?

[objekt]

"The story of Hans Reiser is well known to all Slashdotters by now."

No.

Re:Am I missing something or

[One Childish N00b]

(On a side note, whats with those extremely long terms in prison? Anyone going in for 25 years will never be able to get back into society - I thought the point of prison was to punish and correct the guilty and get them back into working order. There was a couple who got life in prison for mistreating their child to the point of death (raised her as a vegan) - a British couple got 3 years community service for the same thing)

You think being responsible for the mistreatment and death of your own child should only warrant community service? Sorry, if someone is that cold-hearted, they can rot in jail.

Re:Where is the Corpus Delicti?

[tjstork]

I have enough experience to know that very often those people who think themselves a "pretty darned good judge of character" aren't that good as they think.


Fair enough. A lot of people on this board thought that Hans was innocent.

Re:*sigh*

[93 Escort Wagon]

Nice to see someone willing to stand behind strong words... oh wait. Okay, you're an anonymous jerk.

Re:this reminds me of oj simpson

[Reality Master 101]

How about you: are you willing to take responsibility for your part in tolerating racism within the LAPD...

Personally, no, because I have nothing to do with it. On behalf of white people, then I say, "to some extent". White people have already embraced more than enough guilt for past crimes. At this point, the black community and black leadership perpetuate the vast majority of racism. LAPD is mostly racist *because* the black community is so out of control and black leaders are so unwilling to hold people accountable. There's no physical law of the universe that black people should be persecuted by police. But when so many black people (and black leaders!) have embraced cultures of violence, then that's going to have an effect.

The police should not be racist. But they are human. When they are dealing everyday with a ingrained culture of violence, then they're going to go into a "bunker mentality". Which, of course, creates a circle of mistrust. Someone has to break the circle. And it has to begin with the diseased part of black culture and black leadership. Their used to be a white culture of violence in the south against blacks. That culture is pretty much dead (of course, it still happens, but it's not culturally acceptable like it once was). Now, things have been pretty much reversed. Black culture needs to heal itself before we can finally move forward.