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Nick Reiner is acceptable to beryllium arraigned and participate a plea connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) successful the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
His scheduled quality successful a Los Angeles Superior Court comes 3 and a fractional weeks aft the beloved actor-director and his woman of 36 years were recovered dormant with stab wounds successful their location successful the upscale Brentwood conception of Los Angeles, authorities said.
Nick Reiner, 32, the youngest of Rob Reiner's 4 children, was arrested hours later, and has been held without bail since. He was charged 2 days aboriginal with 2 counts of first-degree murder. He did not participate a plea during a little archetypal tribunal quality December 17, erstwhile helium wore shackles and a termination prevention smock.
His attorney, Alan Jackson, has fixed nary denotation of the plans for his defence. Nearly each defendants successful transgression cases plead not blameworthy astatine this stage. Jackson could besides inquire for different hold earlier a plea is entered.
If Nick Reiner pleads not guilty, the lawsuit would usually caput toward a preliminary proceeding to find whether determination is capable grounds for him to basal trial. His intelligence competence for proceedings could besides beryllium a factor.
A decennary ago, Nick Reiner publically discussed his terrible struggles with addiction and intelligence wellness aft making a movie with his father, “Being Charlie”, that was precise loosely based connected their lives.
Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were killed aboriginal connected the greeting of December 14, and they were recovered successful the precocious afternoon, authorities said. The LA County Medical Examiner said successful archetypal findings that they died from “multiple crisp unit injuries”, but released nary different details, and constabulary person said thing astir imaginable motives.
Jackson is simply a high-profile defence lawyer and erstwhile LA County authoritative who represented Harvey Weinstein astatine his Los Angeles proceedings and Karen Read astatine her intensely followed trials successful Massachusetts. After the archetypal Reiner hearing, Jackson called the lawsuit “a devastating tragedy”. He said the proceedings volition beryllium precise analyzable and asked that the circumstances beryllium met “not with a unreserved to judgment”.
The counts against Reiner travel with peculiar circumstances of aggregate murders and an allegation that helium utilized a unsafe weapon, a knife. The additions could mean a greater sentence.
Prosecutors person said they person not yet decided whether to question the decease penalty.
The prosecution is being led by Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian, whose caller cases included the Menendez brothers' effort astatine resentencing and the proceedings of Robert Durst.
Rob Reiner was a prolific manager whose enactment included immoderate of the astir memorable and endlessly watchable movies of the 1980s and '90s. His credits included “This is Spinal Tap”, “Stand By Me”, “A Few Good Men”, and “When Harry Met Sally”, during whose accumulation helium met Michele Singer, a photographer, and joined her soon after.
