Vince Dunn’s Interview – Dissected
Vince Dunn, aka Juror #7, wasted no time in giving a couple of interviews after the verdict of murder in the first degree was delivered in court today. For those of us who believe that Reiser may have been guilty for the murder of Nina Reiser, but did not believe that the prosecution proved their case without a reasonable doubt, Dunn’s interview is a bit disturbing. The interviews contain basically the same information, so let’s take a look at one of them. (David Kravets’ blog on Wired)
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Juror #7 Interview
Well, that was quick. There is a video available for this interview (it requires a Microsoft plug-in).
Here are a couple of links to news articles: KTVU and SFGate.
For the nerdy out there here is the dump:
mplayer -dumpstream
mms://a1870.v129487.c12948.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1870/12948/v0001/vod.ibsys.com/
2008/0429/16054866.200k.wmv
(the link runs off the page, so I had to split it)
As I had feared, the verdict was based, in a large part, to Hans Reiser’s bizarre behavior and the fact that the jurors did not like him.
Hans Reiser – Verdict Reached (Correction)
After deliberating for three days the jury has come back with a verdict of murder in the 1st degree. I am shell-shocked. I am not so shocked that they found him guilty, but guilty of premeditated murder? In my opinion, this jury was swayed by the fact that they absolutley did not like Hans Reiser. They spent six months with him. The judge even showed his disdain towards Reiser while court was in session. This seems fairly unprofessional to me.
Sentencing will be today, I think. I’ll post it as soon as I find out. There is also the appeals process. The folks on the In Session forum don’t hold much weight for an appeal to be granted. The legal heads in their say that in order for an appeal to happen there would have had to have been an error made during the trial. An error that if reveresed would change the outcome of the trial. Except maybe for the gag order on Sean Sturgeon, I don’t think there was such an error. However, the judge does have the authority to change the verdict to a lesser charge if he feels the jury made an error. Again, my legal heads at the forum don’t think this will happen either.
Correction: I didn’t read the article clearly. A sentencing date will most likely be scheduled today.
Some of the jurors are starting to speak out in interviews. I’ll be keeping a look out for those and post back what they say. It’s going to be very interesting to find out how they decided upon premeditation. I have had nothing but doubt during this entire case. And I have been following this from the beginning. However, I have been following this trial from the comfort of my living room. I haven’t had to spend six months in a courtroom suffering through days of mind numbing testimony.
There is one little tid-bit that I found interesting after the verdict was read. The attorneys were asked asked the following question:
Both sides were asked if Reiser would be afforded any leniency should he divulge where his wife’s body is.
“We’ll have to talk to the prosecutor about that,” Du Bois said. “I mean, that would have to be something the prosecutor would have to participate in.”
Hora said, “There are no scheduled discussions, and so the only discussion that I’m looking forward to is the discussion about when the sentencing date will be.”
My socks would be completely blown off if Hans came forward and told us where the body was and how he did it.
Here is a link to Wired’s Threat Level with a video of the verdict being read.
Where is Nina?
There was a lengthy discussion on the In Session forums in regards to how a dead body could fit inside a CRX and go unnoticed. So, if Hans did murder Nina, stuff her in his CRX and dispose of the body, where could he hide her? I’m not familiar with the Oakland Hills area. Thankfully, Google is:
There’s a nice big park, a reservoir and the San Francisco Bay all in reasonable proximity. Sort of makes you start to think that he could have actually pulled this off. I have never said that he may not be guilty. I just don’t think the prosecution proved it. Their case was built solely on circumstantial evidence. We don’t have OJ’s bloody glove. We can speculate on the evidence until the cows come home. The trial is over and now we wait for 12 people to come to some sort of decision. I hope they do it soon – I would like to move on to something else.
Hans Reiser Trial – Update 2
The jury has been deliberating for two full days now. They have asked to review some exhibits, but no one knows what exhibits they were. The jurors wee given the option of not deliberating on Fridays, so the wait will continue. Most legal anylists predict that they will take at least a week to come back with a verdict.
In the meantime, there is a 20/20 interview available on YouTube.
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