{"id":771923,"date":"2026-09-15T23:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771923\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:52:13","slug":"nick-reiner-will-not-face-death-penalty-if-convicted-of-killing-parents-la-district-attorney-says-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771923\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Reiner will not face death penalty if convicted of killing parents, LA district attorney says | California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Reiner will not face the death penalty if convicted of the killings of his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, the Los Angeles<\/a> county district attorney\u2019s office announced.<\/p>\n

Nathan Hochman, the Los Angeles DA, said on Tuesday that his office will not pursue the death penalty in the case. He told reporters gathered outside a Los Angeles courthouse ahead of a pretrial hearing that the prosecutors had considered the wishes of Reiner family members and mitigating factors in making their decision.<\/p>\n

While the death penalty is legal in California<\/a>, Gavin Newsom put a moratorium on the practice in 2019, and the last execution took place in 2006.<\/p>\n

Reiner is accused of fatally stabbing his parents in their Los Angeles home in December 2025. The deaths of Rob, 78, a celebrated director and actor, and Michele, 70, sent shockwaves through Hollywood.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of first degree murder. The charges include a special circumstance of multiple murders, and a special allegation for the use of a dangerous weapon. A grand jury<\/a> indicted Reiner last month on two counts of first degree murder with an additional special circumstance of lying in wait.<\/p>\n

The maximum penalty he will face, prosecutors said, is life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n

Reiner had a history of addiction and mental health challenges, family members have said, and collaborated with his father on the film Being Charlie<\/a>, which was reportedly inspired by his experiences. Jake Reiner, the eldest son of Rob and Michele, said in a recent interview<\/a> that his parents \u201cnever stopped helping\u201d Nick.<\/p>\n

Reiner\u2019s former attorney, Alan Jackson, previously said that \u201cpursuant to the laws of California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Reiner will not face the death penalty if convicted of the killings of his parents, Rob and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}