\u201cIf convicted as charged, Reiner faces death or life in state prison without the possibility of parole. A decision on whether to seek the death penalty will be made at a later date.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement added of the charges: \u201c32-year-old Nick Reiner was charged today with murdering his parents, Hollywood luminary Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner, over the weekend at the couple\u2019s Brentwood home …<\/p>\n
\u201cNick Reiner [dob 9\/14\/93] was charged in case 25CJCF08098 with two counts of murder with the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders. He also faces a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, a knife.<\/p>\n
\u201cArraignment will be scheduled for a later date …\u201d<\/p>\n
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in the release: \u201cProsecuting cases involving family violence are some of the most challenging and heart-wrenching we face because of the intimate and often brutal nature of the crimes.<\/p>\n
If convicted, Nick faces death or life in prison without parole; arraignment is pending. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cRob Reiner was one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation. His murder and his wife of more than 35 years, Michele Singer Reiner\u2019s murder, are shocking and tragic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe owe it to their memory to pursue justice and accountability for the lives that were taken.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a press conference held on Tuesday, Hochman confirmed he\u2019s still waiting for details on the cause of death and the exact time of the killings.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cI\u2019m sorry we don\u2019t have that kind of specificity yet. We\u2019re waiting on the coroner to be able to try and determine as best they can at this point time of death.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf convicted as charged, Reiner faces death or life in state prison without the possibility of parole. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,46794,13239,634,156,5504,305,6148,11156,4275,111,139,69,23941,26481,84888,116559,77461,27043,22639,11787,44977,49632,1842],"class_list":["post-188660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-angeles","tag-charged","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-following","tag-have","tag-justice","tag-killing","tag-murder","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-penalty","tag-prosecutors","tag-pursue","tag-reiner","tag-rob","tag-shocking","tag-son","tag-tragic","tag-vowed","tag-weigh","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}