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Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life

Posted by Soulskill on from the bye-now dept.

mallumax writes "Hans Reiser was today handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life for murdering his wife. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty and led police to his wife's body. His jury trial concluded in April with Reiser's first-degree murder conviction. That carries a 25-to-life term, but the authorities, in a backroom deal, later offered him 15-to-life if he produced his wife's body and waived any rights to appeal his conviction." Several other readers contributed coverage at SFGate.

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  1. Try to be objective, everybody. by Toonol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And remember that both the conviction and the sentence were handed down by people who know far more about the case than any of us. And 'reasonable doubt' is different than 'complete mathematical certainty.'

    1. Re:Try to be objective, everybody. by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I honestly don't know how anyone could think he's realistically innocent. He pointed them to his wife's body, confessed, not to mention the fact that there was already enough evidence to convict him at the trial. Sure, it's not a mathematical certainty, but justice never is.

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      "16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
  2. Re:Fuck You, Hans Reiser by glitch23 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now let's hope some fellow inmate does what needs to be done, and puts an end to this vile piece of garbage.

    You are no better than him if you are advocating someone murder him. One murder does not justify another.

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    this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
  3. Re:He should have gotten the chair by Obyron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because only in the freest country on earth are prison rape, gang beatings, and physical torture at the hands of sadistic miscreants NOT considered cruel and unusual! I have a hard time believing my fellow Americans are any more decent than the prisoners they say they hate when they talk about how so and so deserves to be raped in the showers. People are fucking disgusting.

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    --Obyron
  4. Finally the End by burris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Finally, the end to a tragic tale. Nobody won.

    The kids lost their parents.

    Two sets of parents also lost their kids.

    A bunch of people lost one of their best friends.

    The local community, particularly Russian immigrants, lost a potential doctor.

    The Linux community lost a dedicated developer of innovative free software.

    The DA's office lost a lot of time and money over the last two years prosecuting this case.

    Everyone loses.

  5. Namesys' customer service was 'painless' by viking80 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder what kind of service Namesys gave to any of its customers and users. Reiser was arrogant and annoying, and that is toward the people with the power to send you to jail forever.

    His attonery also says "Hans killed Nina for making a 'cavalier' remark", but he killed her painlessly.

    Are anyone that reported defects in the Reiser FS still alive?

    Was the level of customer service that you would be killed painlessly as opposed to really bad customer service where customers are tortured before they succumb?

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    don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
  6. Re:Fuck You, Hans Reiser by lazy_playboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have a huge problem with it, and not because of any chance of miscarriage of justice.

    'Civilised society is judged on how it treats it's prisoners and it's disabled.'

    The US 'corrections' system has a long long way to come yet.