The geek defense, also called the "platypus defense", was used by Hans Reiser in the trial regarding the murder of his wife. * Computer programmer's attorneys use "geek defense" (Washington Post) "Being too intelligent can be a sort of curse," defense counsel William Du Bois said. "All this weird conduct can be explained by him, but he's the only one who can do it. People who are commonly known as computer geeks are so into the field." * Hans Reiser turns up "geek defense" to 11 (Wired) "I have a compulsive tendency to say things that I know are true that people don’t want to be true. I do this by reference to the data," the developer of the ReiserFS filesystem testified. Scientists, the defendant testified, "we’re all kind of comfortable with each other but when we go out into