... new attorney can supplement it." Reiser wrote that he wanted his divorce lawyer, John Fuery of Oakland, to file a motion for a new trial. "I also ask that he attempt to ... Nina Reiser, in exchange for a lighter term, perhaps 15-to-life. "I am his lawyer now," Fuery said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "The guy is mixed up," Fuery ... his Namesys software company. File illustration: Norman Quebedeau See Also: Lawyers to Judge: Hans Reiser May Be 'Mentally Incompetent' Hans Reiser Offers To Lead ...
July 2, 2008 05:57 pm
... 's two young children to stay with their father Hans Reiser at his Oakland hills house for the Labor Day weekend. It is not immediately known whether the defendant, ... upcoming murder trial. Later on, as part of what became known as the "geek defense," his lawyers decried the Linux developer in front of jurors as being so socially inept that any guilt- ... Degree Murder Juror: Hans Reiser Planned the Murder, 'Thought It Out' Defense Lawyer Says Reiser Didn't Help Himself Reiser Jurors Reach Verdict ...
July 1, 2008 04:08 pm
... Riverside the next time. Unfortunately for Tenenbaum, the seat being vacated later this year by Ventura lawyer Carmen Ramirez is slated under the agreement to go to an attorney from the Inland Empire counties. ... force him out of the race and no one can make any lawyer vote any particular way. "However," she added, "our bar associations ... got ugly in 2003 when the Santa Clara County Bar Association refused to endorse Oakland Deputy City Attorney Demetrius Shelton because he had violated the agreement ...
June 27, 2008 04:31 pm
... be convicted." Reiser, 44, was convicted by an Alameda County Superior Court jury of killing his wife, who was last seen at his Oakland hills house on Sept. 3, 2006. She dropped off the divorcing couple's two kids to stay with their father for part ... First Degree Murder Juror: Hans Reiser Planned the Murder, 'Thought It Out' Hans Reiser Turns Up 'Geek Defense' to 11 Defense Lawyer Says Reiser Didn't Help Himself Reiser Jurors Reach Verdict Reiser Jury Checks in for Third Day of Deliberations Hans ...
June 6, 2008 02:31 pm

Developments In The IRS Estate Tax Division

(California Tax Attorney Blog)
... the U.S.: ESTATE TAX MANAGERS Kym Taborn Van Nuys, California (Covers Los Angeles) 818 756 4522 Janet Holman Oakland, California (Covers Oakland, Los Angeles, San Jose) 510 637 4557 Ralph Perez New York 212 436 1114 Virginia Hunt New York (Covers ... ) 817 759 2900 x 620 Vacant AZ, San Diego, Laguna Niguel James Hammerstrom WA (Covers WA, OR, HI) 425 468 6009 Kyle Martin Oakland, CA (Covers UT, Denver, San Jose, Bakersfield) 510 637 4549 Toby Stewart Houston (Covers NM, Houston, Austin) 713 209 ...
June 4, 2008 05:51 am
... comment on the amounts discussed but says in most cases her organization reaches "settlements acceptable to both parties." The trial, in Oakland, Calif., lasted four weeks. After about a day and a half of deliberations, the jury returned a verdict in JDS's favor. ... spent around $50 million in legal fees, though insurers covered much of the tab. But despite JDS's win, lawyers say the case is unlikely to encourage other companies to seek trials - partly because wins are anything but a sure best. ...
June 1, 2008 12:04 am

Climate Change Effect, Cause Evidence Compiled in Exhaustive Report

(Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Blog)
... in causing global warming, primarily through emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. A federal judge in Oakland, California, last year ordered the assessment to be produced by this May 31. Issuance of the document, "Scientific Assessment of the ... Scuderi also said the government had not been trying to hide the report. She said Bush administration lawyers had argued that the earlier releases of the separate reports constituted compliance with the law at issue in the case. (Photo: ...
May 29, 2008 03:47 am
... but now says Immersion owes it some dough from its $82 million patent infringement verdict against Sony. Update on that: an Oakland federal judge threw out ISLLC's claim on summary judgment on May 16. While reviewing Immersion's ... had a couple good blog posts last year on the lawsuit and the business strategy backdrop of the Microsoft settlement. But Microsoft lawyers goofed when they filed the June complaint, disclosing some confidential terms of the Immersion-Sony agreement: namely, they noted ...
May 25, 2008 11:56 am

Look Who's Trashing Hillary Now

(TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime)
... Bay Area lawyers who knew Clinton in the summer of 1971 when she worked as an intern at a left-wing law firm in Oakland, Calif., that defended communists and Black Panthers. Stupid Comparison #1: Judging lawyers by the clients they represent. Even more stupid, judging a ... is collateral damage for Hillary. All it does is highlight that Barack Obama's ties to Ayers were not lawyer-client related like Hillary's were, proving that all associations are not equal. As an added ...
May 18, 2008 11:43 pm

Protesting Yoo's Views on Torture

(Essentially Contested America)
... Bush administration's policies on torture. . . . 'We want to see him fired and disbarred for being a war criminal,' said Anne Weills, an Oakland attorney who said she was with the National Lawyers Guild, one of the groups that protested. 'Academic freedom stops when you intend to harm or injure somebody.' . . . Yoo, a tenured constitutional law professor at Boalt Hall, took a leave of absence from 2001 to 2003 to ...
May 18, 2008 11:00 pm

Get Inn

(Nuts " Boalts)
... show up once a month during the school year at the federal courthouse in Oakland. You mingle with judges, prosecutors, PDs, firm lawyers, etc. One month, you help put on a ... evening at 6:00-9:00 pm on the third Wednesday of each month in downtown Oakland. The annual fee is very modest, about $150, which covers the seven or so restaurant meals. ... skit.) Otherwise, you will simply attend presentations, meet and greet judges and lawyers, and enjoy a nice meal. Attendance is important, so if you join, you ...
May 14, 2008 05:35 pm
... in 2009, generating an extra $360 million for the state. But the real budget action for some lawyers may come in putting together - or challenging - the governor's plan to soup up the ... , he said. But Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, called it "shameful." Other lawmakers were just as critical. We haven't even ... the annual raise for SSI recipients and to siphon public transportation money to the general fund. But we're sure that lawyers representing those groups will. - Cheryl Miller
May 14, 2008 10:00 am
... few weeks. The captain, however, and two other crew members who were on the bridge when the Cosco Busan struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Nov. 7 will have to remain technically under arrest another several weeks. All six had been detained ... , told federal prosecutors the fog was extremely dense and that he felt Cota had the ship going too fast. The lawyers for the six crew members were ordered Monday to negotiate with federal prosecutors to develop a schedule for the men to give their ...
May 6, 2008 02:31 am
... Gibraltar acquit local defendants far more often than those from outside Gibraltar. --Howard Zimmerle at Quad Cities Injury Lawyers has a fresh and often unexpectedly candid perspective, as in this post where he explains how a well-intended and well ... agreement with his political opposite, Antonin Scalia. --Karen Franklin announces the guilty verdict in the Hans Reiser case in Oakland, where Reiser was convicted of killing his wife although her body was not found. A simple technique the prosecutor ...
May 4, 2008 12:36 pm
... Instead, Inmate No. BFPS63 did a double take at this jail just southeast of Oakland. Threat Level had come calling with questions. Was Reiser satisfied with the fairness of the trial? ... seated at the defense table -- and who provided self-damning testimony over his lawyers' objections, declined comment. "On the advice of my attorneys," he said. And as he ... could think was that Hans Reiser waited too long to start heeding his lawyers' advice. See Also: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder Juror ...
April 30, 2008 08:57 am
... a Tuesday court appearance setting his sentencing date. "I was looking at his eyes," the Oakland man said in a telephone interview. "He was faking it." After two days of deliberations, Dunn ... . 3, 2006. She was last seen at her estranged husband's house in the Oakland hills, when she dropped off the divorcing couple's two young children for ... Cover Up to Murder Reiser Jurors Reach Verdict; Wired.com to Stream It Live Defense Lawyer Says Reiser Didn't Help Himself Reiser Jury Checks in for Third Day ...
April 29, 2008 04:23 am
OAKLAND, California -- In a media briefing following today's murder verdict, prosecutor Paul Hora said the jury was persuaded to convict Hans Reiser of murder by the latticework of circumstantial evidence presented at the six-month trial. "The ... Reiser's disappearance added up to murder in the eyes of the jury. Immediately following today's verdict, Reiser's own lawyer suggested his client doomed himself when he insisted on taking the stand in his own defense. "I'm sure he negatively impressed ...
April 28, 2008 11:03 am
... aide through a widely dismissed method known as facilitated communication. And last fall, an Oakland County jury took less than 30 minutes to acquit an Oxford Middle School ... job and jailed him. The Auburn Hills man spent nearly $100,000 on lawyers during the next five months, preparing for a trial that would never happen. The girls, ... the claims because they preferred living with their mother. Only then did Oakland County prosecutors drop the charges that McCarthy insists should never have been ...
April 27, 2008 06:10 pm

MI- Oakland Co.'s handling of sex case charges raises concerns

(Sex Offender Research by A Voice of Reason)
... aide through a widely dismissed method known as facilitated communication. And last fall, an Oakland County jury took less than 30 minutes to acquit an Oxford Middle School ... job and jailed him. The Auburn Hills man spent nearly $100,000 on lawyers during the next five months, preparing for a trial that would never happen. The girls, ... the claims because they preferred living with their mother. Only then did Oakland County prosecutors drop the charges that McCarthy insists should never have been ...
April 27, 2008 12:08 pm
... in an empty courtroom as a blanket next to Old Glory covers a television camera. Courtroom sketch: Wired.com/ Norman Quebedeau OAKLAND, California -- The jury deliberating the Hans Reiser murder trial left the courthouse here about 3:15 p.m. Pacific time Thursday, ... Motive Coming Out of His Ears' Reiser Prosecutor Urging Jurors to Convict Linux Programmer, Says ... Defense Attorney Declares Hans Reiser Innocent, a 'Real Genuine ... Reiser a Victim of 'One of the Great Screw Jobs,' Lawyer Says ...
April 24, 2008 08:28 am
 
 
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