Nick Reiner seems in court docket on homicide prices in his mother and father’ deaths

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Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner made his first court docket look Wednesday on two counts of first-degree homicide within the alleged killing of his mother and father.

The 32-year-old didn't enter a plea as he appeared from behind the glass wall of a custody space. He was in shackles and carrying a jail suicide prevention smock.

Reiner's arraignment was postponed till Jan. 7 at his lawyer's request. He spoke solely to say "sure, your honour" to comply with the date.

After the listening to, Nick Reiner's lawyer Alan Jackson referred to as the case "a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner household." He stated the proceedings might be very complicated.

"And we ask that in this course of you enable the system to maneuver ahead in the best way that it was designed to maneuver ahead," Jackson stated outdoors the courthouse. "Not with a rush to judgment, not with leaping to conclusions."

Jackson declined to reply shouted questions from dozens of reporters surrounding him.

WATCH | Nick Reiner's lawyer asks public to not leap to conclusions: Nick Reiner makes court docket look on 2 homicide counts in his mother and father' deaths

Nick Reiner appeared in court docket briefly on Wednesday after being charged within the stabbing deaths of his mother and father, actor-director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Nick Reiner's lawyer, Alan Jackson, described the killing of the Reiners as a 'devastating tragedy' and requested the general public to belief the judicial course of and never rush to judgment or leap conclusions. Nick's older brother Jake Reiner and youthful sister Romy Reiner additionally launched an announcement by way of a household spokesperson on Wednesday.

"Phrases can not even start to explain the unimaginable ache we're experiencing each second of the day," they stated. "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 have been our greatest associates."

The brother and sister stated they have been "grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and help now we have acquired not solely from household and associates however folks from all walks of life.

"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."

Nick Reiner was charged Tuesday with killing the 78-year-old actor and director Rob Reiner and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, 68, regulation enforcement officers introduced yesterday at a information convention.

<img loading="lazy" alt="a man with grey hair and a sharp grey suit stands with his arms across his body in a courtroom, looking serious" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/23a0ef7c-cddf-4561-a1dc-ac60166e7852,1765998774752/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4743%2C3162%29%3BResize%3D805 805w,https://i.cbc.ca/ais/23a0ef7c-cddf-4561-a1dc-ac60166e7852,1765998774752/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4743%2C3162%29%3BResize%3D1104 1104w,https://i.cbc.ca/ais/23a0ef7c-cddf-4561-a1dc-ac60166e7852,1765998774752/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4743%2C3162%29%3BResize%3D1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 762px) 93.6vw,730px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/23a0ef7c-cddf-4561-a1dc-ac60166e7852,1765998774752/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4743%2C3162%29%3B" style="aspect-ratio:1.5" data-cy="image-img"/> Alan Jackson, Nick Reiner's lawyer, is in court docket defending Reiner on homicide prices in connection to the killing of his mother and father Rob and Michele Singer Reiner in Los Angeles on Dec. 17. (Jae C. Hong/Reuters) "Their loss is past tragic and we are going to commit ourselves to bringing their assassin to justice," Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman stated at a information convention on Tuesday with L.A. Police Chief Jim McDonnell.

Together with the 2 counts of first-degree homicide, prosecutors added particular circumstances of a number of murders and a particular allegation that the defendant used a harmful weapon, a knife.

Hochman stated his workplace has not but determined whether or not to hunt the loss of life penalty within the case. Reiner is presently being held with out bail.

"This case is heartbreaking and deeply private, not just for the Reiner household and their family members however for our complete metropolis," McDonnell stated.

The announcement got here after the couple was discovered useless on Sunday from obvious stab wounds of their house within the upscale Brentwood neighbourhood on the west aspect of Los Angeles.

Nick Reiner didn't resist when he was arrested hours later within the metropolis's Exposition Park space, close to the College of Southern California, about 22 kilometres from the crime scene, police stated.

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Rob Reiner was the Emmy-winning star of the sitcom All within the Household who went on to direct movies together with When Harry Met Sally... and The Princess Bride. He was an outspoken liberal activist for many years.

Michele Singer Reiner was a photographer, film producer and advocate for 2SLGBTQ+ rights. They'd been married for 36 years.

A number of of these closest to them, together with actors Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks, Martin Quick and Larry David, launched an announcement mourning and celebrating the couple on Tuesday night time.

"They have been a particular power collectively — dynamic, unselfish and provoking," the assertion stated. "We have been their associates, and we are going to miss them ceaselessly."

<img loading="lazy" alt="a hoard of Tv cameras point toward a court building, outside on the sidewalk on a cloudy day" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/9522c1f8-01b7-46c5-9cb4-92832e0a93a7,1765998920295/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5500%2C3668%29%3BResize%3D805 805w,https://i.cbc.ca/ais/9522c1f8-01b7-46c5-9cb4-92832e0a93a7,1765998920295/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5500%2C3668%29%3BResize%3D1104 1104w,https://i.cbc.ca/ais/9522c1f8-01b7-46c5-9cb4-92832e0a93a7,1765998920295/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5500%2C3668%29%3BResize%3D1280 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 762px) 93.6vw,730px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/ais/9522c1f8-01b7-46c5-9cb4-92832e0a93a7,1765998920295/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C5500%2C3668%29%3B" style="aspect-ratio:1.499454743729553" data-cy="image-img"/> Media members wait outdoors Clara Shortridge Foltz Prison Justice Centre forward of Nick Reiner's look in court docket following being charged within the deaths of his mother and father. (Daniel Cole/Reuters) Nick Reiner had been scheduled to make an preliminary court docket look on Tuesday, however his lawyer, stated he was not introduced from the jail to the courthouse for medical causes and the looks was postponed to Wednesday.

Jackson is a high-profile defence lawyer and former L.A. County prosecutor who represented Harvey Weinstein at his Los Angeles trial and Karen Learn at her intensely adopted trials in Massachusetts. He was a central determine within the HBO documentary on the Learn case.

On the opposite aspect might be Deputy District Legal professional Habib Balian, whose latest circumstances included the Menendez brothers' try at resentencing and the trial of Robert Durst.

Authorities have not stated something a couple of motive for the killings and would give few particulars when requested on the information convention.