Nick Reiner uttered a couple of phrases in courtroom throughout his first look after being charged with the murders of his mother and father, Rob and Michele Reiner.
Through the courtroom look on Wednesday, December 17, Nick, 32, was addressed by the decide in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom after his lawyer, Alan Jackson, selected to not enter a plea for him. The decide requested Nick if he was sure he needed to waive his proper to a quick arraignment. “Sure, your honor,” Nick replied, per Individuals. The arraignment was pushed again to January 7, 2026.
Jackson addressed reporters gathered exterior the courtroom for the listening to after telling the courtroom it was “too early” to enter a plea.
“This can be a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner household,” the lawyer mentioned. “All of us acknowledged that our hearts exit to your entire Reiner household. There are very, very advanced and critical points which are related to this case. These have to be completely, however very rigorously handled and examined and checked out and analyzed.”
“We requested that [muffled] course of you enable the system to maneuver ahead in the best way that it was designed to maneuver ahead, not with a rushed judgment, not with leaping to conclusions, however with restraint and with dignity, and with the respect that this method and this course of deserves, and that the household deserves,” Jackson’s assertion continued. “So with that we’re set for January 7 for an arraignment. That’s the following courtroom date, and that’s all I’ve to say at this level. There could also be extra at another level, however as we speak we’re going to relaxation on the place we stand procedurally, which is it is a continuance of arraignment. Nothing occurred as we speak, substantively. We’ll be again for an association in the identical division on January 7. We’ll see you then.”
Rob and Michele, aged 78 and 70, respectively, had been discovered lifeless of their Brentwood, California, house with obvious stab wounds on Sunday, December 14. Nick was arrested on Monday, December 15, close to the College of Southern California campus in College Park, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles District Lawyer Nathan Hochman introduced in a press convention on Tuesday, December 16, that Nick was charged with two counts of first-degree homicide. Nick is going through life in jail with out parole or the loss of life penalty if convicted.
Nick wore a suicide prevention vest throughout his first courtroom look on Wednesday, based on a courtroom sketch obtained by Us Weekly.
Following the courtroom look, Nick’s siblings Jake, 34, and Romy, 28, shared their heartbreak over their mother and father’ deaths in a joint assertion. (Rob additionally adopted daughter Tracy, 61, throughout his marriage to late ex-wife Penny Marshall.)
“Phrases can’t even start to explain the unimaginable ache we’re experiencing each second of the day. The horrific and devastating lack of our mother and father, Rob and Michele Reiner, is one thing that nobody ought to ever expertise. They weren’t simply our mother and father; they had been our greatest mates. We’re grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness and help now we have acquired not solely from household and mates however folks from all walks of life,” Romy and Jake advised TMZ on Wednesday. “We now ask for respect and privateness, for hypothesis to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our mother and father to be remembered for the unimaginable lives they lived and the love they gave.”
