OAKLAND, California – Now that Hans Reiser, the Linux developer, has led authorities to the gravesite he dug 4-feet-deep for his estranged wife he killed in 2006, there’s likely to be some psychological closure for Nina Reiser’s family and her two small kids the defendant fathered.

“Now the family gets to pick a burial site, not the defendant,” prosecutor Paul Hora told a news conference Tuesday, as he explained a complex legal maneuver by which a California jury’s April first-degree murder conviction can be nullified and converted to a second-degree conviction in exchange for the defendant’s production of the body.

The difference is an automatic 25-to-life term being reduced to a 15-to-life term, leaving it to California parole officials to determine eligibility for release only after the 44-year-old defendant serves 15 years. No sentencing date has been scheduled.

The psychological benefits of the deal are impossible to quantify. Clearly, the deal brokered between Hora and defense attorneys and being approved by the judge will open up old wounds. While the six months of trial verged on a story that Hollywood playwrights could only dream of concocting, the real life actors of this made-for-television drama are the victim’s mother, Irina — Nina’s and Han’s two children, a boy now 8 and a girl now 6, and other family members and friends.

The children are living with Nina’s mother in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the couple met when Hans was overseas hiring programmers for his Namesys software company.

At least for the blood relatives, the benefits to them are easy to see. During the trial, Reiser and his attorneys maintained that Nina abandoned the children after he accused her of bilking his company, and that he stood falsely accused of murdering the mother of his two children.

Reiser and his attorneys told jurors the grandmother even coached her grandson to testify against his father. But the b
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