The Reiser Trial - "Something Big"
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The Reiser Trial: Day Three
Something Big….
No prosecutor in his or her right mind will promise an important bit of proof and then not present it. Assuming that there will be no egg on Mr. Hora’s face later this year, the jury will hear testimony from Mr. Reiser’s little boy, who is to be flown in from Russia.
In what the prosecution conceded might have been a nightmare, the boy (name withheld) is expected to say that he saw “something big” being carried out of the house the night of the last day Mommy was seen alive. This may be enough to help plug the gaping. “Where is the body?” hole, even if the boy’s testimony is discredited. It also will tend to rule out the suggestion that Mom is now hiding out in Russia.
We now may know why the opening statements were delayed from Monday to Tuesday.
Frequently, there is an objection to a proposed inclusion in counsel’s remarks. Alert defense counsel would have tried to keep out the boy’s testimony in a motion in limine. After all, the bell once rung can’t be un-rung.
I hope to do a piece about all of the expected evidence next week. Meantime, there was one other damaging bit of proof mentioned today.
On the day of Nina Reiser’s disappearance, she and the children were captured on a grocery store security camera.
Recall that the sacks of groceries from the same store – by then rotting – were found in her Honda Odyssey several days later. I expect that the DA will present circumstantial evidence tending to show that Mrs. Reiser suffered “foul play” on or near the day of her disappearance. The jury will be asked to infer that her Odyssey was moved to the Montclair District spot by her assailant after she was “out of the way”. We can expect to learn of evidence linking the Odyssey to Mr. Reiser. We might expect the defense to argue that she was the tragic victim of an Oakland thug (but therein lies a trap; that line of argument supports the implication she was murdered).
We can be sure that this case will look much different in one week.
Later…
For reporter Henry Lee’s full account go to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/07/BANMT83JE.DTL .For reporter Henry Lee’s full account go to .
