Hans Reiser ultimately received a 15-to-life sentence, after having declined a 3 year plea deal prior to trial. The case began with no body, no crime scene, no reliable eyewitness and virtually no physical evidence. There were allegations of theft from his company that although weakly supporting a plot against Reiser could have persuaded the jury. It ended with Reiser convicted of killing Nina, his 31-year-old wife, after he took the stand and proceeded to slowly hang himself over the course of 11 days of testimony much of it so ludicrous that jurors were observed laughing.
His very experienced criminal defense lawyer did not want him to take the stand at all. Yet after taking the stand Reiser now asserts that his lawyer coerced him to do so for some vague reason.
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