Intellectual Property Law

Hans Reiser Jury Leaves Without Verdict

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

OAKLAND, California -- Jurors deliberating the Hans Reiser murder trial have left the courthouse, about 90 minutes after receiving the case Tuesday afternoon.

The Linux programmer and developer of the ReiserFS filesystem is accused of killing his wife, Nina Reiser, on Sept. 3, 2006. Her last known whereabouts were at her estranged husband's house in the Oakland hills, where she dropped off the divorcing couple's two young children for the Labor Day weekend.

The 12-member jury is to resume deliberations Wednesday.

THREAT LEVEL is providing gavel-to-gavel coverage.

Sketch by Wired.com's Norman Quebedeau.

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