Closing arguments begin in trial of US software programmer accused of killing his Russian wife

: A female parent missing since 2006 did not willingly abandon her children, a public prosecutor said as he summed up the trial of a software system computer programmer accused of killing his Russian-born wife.

A organic structure was never found, and Hans Reiser 's defence have suggested his married woman might be life secretly in her native Russia.

But in his shutting statement Tuesday, public prosecutor Alice Paul Hora said Nina Reiser would never have got left her children to inquire nighttime after nighttime where she was.

"Can you believe of anything more cruel?" Hora asked. "She wouldn't make that to those kids. It's vicious. It's cruel to make that to kids."

Nina Reiser, 31 at the time, hasn't been seen since dropping Rory, then-6, and Niorline, 5, off at Hans Reiser's house on Sept. 3, 2006. Today in Americas

Reiser, 44, known in scheduling circles for his ReiserFS computing machine data file system, states he had nil to make with Nina Reiser's disappearance. He testified that the last clip he saw her she was driving away from his house.

Hora, who is expected to go on his statement Wednesday, told jurymen they have got to reply three questions: Is Nina Reiser dead? Did Hans Reiser killing her? And, if so, was it homicide or manslaughter?

He began by giving his reply to the first question, detailing all the programs Nina Reiser had made that fall, arranging for day care for her children, landing a new occupation and studying for approaching medical exams. After she disappeared, government establish her U.S. and Russian passes at her home, along with 100s in cash.

Her abandoned minivan was establish with her bag inside, along with pokes of groceries, by that clip rotting, that she had bought before going to Hans Reiser's house.

"There's no uncertainty she's dead. That's what all this means," Hora said. The grounds may be circumstantial, he said, but "it's powerful. It's convincing. It's persuasive and it's the truth."

Hora also covered Reiser's behaviour after Nina Reiser went missing.

When a friend of Nina Reiser's called on the eventide of Sept. Five to state the female parent of two was missing and asked if Hans Reiser could assist with any information since he apparently had seen her last, Hans Reiser said he needed to speak with his lawyer, Hora said. He did not name Nina Reiser.

"He doesn't even trouble oneself to pick up the telephone and dial her figure once! Not once!" Hora said, his voice rising to a shout. "That's absolutely mind-boggling."

Meanwhile, the Honda CRX Reiser was driving at the clip went missing. "The exact same time. What a coincidence," Hora said.

When the auto was located two hebdomads later, the presence rider place was missing and the floor boards were soaked.

Reiser said he took the place out to do the auto more comfy to kip in and hosed down the flooring because it was dirty.

But Hora said the existent ground was the auto contained grounds linking Reiser to his estranged wife's murder.

"It's incredibly incriminating that that seat's missing," he said. "It's devastating, actually."

Hora portrayed Reiser as a adult male obsessed with a acrimonious divorcement battle, reading from an e-mail inch which Reiser described his estranged married woman as "evil." He noted that Reiser was experienced in judo and that Nina Reiser's blood was establish on a pillar near Reiser's presence door.

Authorities don't cognize everything that happened in the case, the public prosecutor said. They can't state how Nina Reiser was killed or where her organic structure is located, he said.

But, said Hora, "we cognize enough."

If convicted, Reiser confronts a upper limit sentence of 25 old age to life in prison.

Testimony ends in murder trial of software programmer Hans Reiser, whose wife is still missing

: A software system computer programmer accused of killing his married woman complained about his lawyers' public presentation and asked for a new lawyer as testimony in his trial ended Monday. He got a scolding from the justice instead.

"Mr. Reiser, I have got about had it with you," Judge Larry Benny Goodman told Hans Reiser outside the presence of jurors. "You are rude. You are arrogant. There's not adequate words in the English linguistic communication to depict the manner you are."

Reiser, 44, is accused of killing his estranged wife, Nina, amid a detention fight. She hasn't been seen since dropping off their two children on Sept. 3, 2006.

With no organic structure ever found, the defence have suggested Nina Reiser may be life in her native Russia.

Prosecutors state circumstantial grounds points to Hans Reiser as her killer: The presence rider place was missing from Reiser's auto and his wife's deoxyribonucleic acid was establish in the auto and at Hans Reiser's house. Today in Americas

Reiser, known in scheduling circles for his ReiserFS computing machine data file system, concluded testimony in the lawsuit when he was recalled to the base to speak about his computing machine difficult drives.

A computing machine expert who studied the thrusts last hebdomad testified Monday he did not happen anything linking Reiser to Nina Reiser's disappearance. However, the expert, Kyle Ritter, said he could not utilize automated programmes to analyse some of the files, and he didn't have got clip to make so manually.

Reiser testified there was nil on either difficult thrust implicating him in Nina Reiser's disappearance, and said, "This whole thing is silly."

His attorney, William Du Bois, then asked if Reiser had something to say.

Reiser said he wanted his children — life in Soviet Union with Nina Reiser's female parent — called to the base and added "I have got jobs with their having been kidnapped."

He also said he wanted to be questioned by one of his former divorcement lawyers and indicated he wanted to change attorneys. Later, Du Bois indicated he was ready to rest, but Reiser said the defence wasn't ready.

The justice told the jury testimony had ended and excused them until Tuesday, when shutting statements are put to begin.

With the jury out of the room, Reiser began making a statement about things he thought the defence should have got brought up and repeated his petition for a different attorney.

Goodman said it was improbable that another lawyer would be ready to step in and get shutting Tuesday, and there would be no hold in the trial.

The justice told Reiser he have got "made a jeer of everything about this proceeding." He also warned him that, "If you go on to interrupt the courtroom, I will have you removed from this courtroom."

The session ended and Reiser, still talking, was led away by bailiffs.

Calif. software programmer explains wife's blood stains as his murder trial resumes

: A software system computer programmer accused of killing his estranged Russian-born married woman sought to explicate why discolorations of her blood were establish at his place after she disappeared.

After a weeklong hiatus, Hans Reiser, 44, appeared Tuesday on the base for his 8th twenty-four hours of testimony at his homicide trial in Alameda County Superior Court. He is charged with killing Nina Reiser, who was last seen dropping their two children off at his house in the Oakland Hills in September 2006.

Reiser is known in scheduling services as the Godhead of the ReiserFS computing machine data file system.

Asked about the blood stains, Reiser said she had cut her manus while cookery and had a epistaxis when they were handing off the kids. He said both incidents took topographic point during summertime 2006.

Prosecutors aver Reiser killed his 31-year-old wife around the Labor Day vacation in September 2006 amid a awful detention dispute, used his mother's Honda CRX to dispose of the organic structure and then cleaned the vehicle to acquire quit of evidence. Her organic structure have never been found, but they state deoxyribonucleic acid and other grounds point to Reiser. Today in Americas

The defence have suggested that Nina Reiser may still be alive and life in her native Russia, where the children are now living with their maternal grandmother. The estranged couple met in Soviet Union in 1998.

On Tuesday, public prosecutor Alice Paul Hora continued to inquiry Hans Reiser about the last clip he saw his married woman and his actions in the years and hebdomads after she went missing.

Reiser testified that his married woman visited for one to two hours when she dropped off the children on the afternoon of Sept. 3, 2006. He cooked macaroni and cheese and spaghetti for them; then he and his married woman discussed their divorcement legal proceeding while the children played downstairs.

Hora also asked Reiser about why he removed a piece of the car's inside that covered the dorsum of the Honda hatchback.

Reiser said he took out the natural covering because it had started to odor after milk was spilled on it. He said he was going to utilize plyboard and futon stuff to build a bed in the auto before police force confiscated it.

"I decided to repair the auto up the manner I always wanted to repair it up," Reiser said. "It's kind of a male thing to desire to have got a bedroll for your Equus caballus or a topographic point to kip in your car."

Asked what he did with the covering, Reiser said that he tossed it in the rubbish but that he could not retrieve where or when he threw it away.

When police force establish the car, the presence rider place had been removed.

Reiser previously testified that he had taken out the place to do the auto more comfy to kip in.