The LA County Public Defender\u2019s Office, which is representing Reiner, declined to comment on the indictment.<\/p>\n
Grand jury process happens in secret<\/p>\n
California prosecutors can charge a defendant and take the case through a preliminary hearing \u2014 a sort of trial in miniature where evidence is publicly aired and a judge decides whether it should be sent to trial \u2014 as recently happened with singer D4vd.<\/p>\n
Or they can use a grand jury to go through the process in secret. They can also publicly file charges and later seek a secret grand jury indictment, essentially creating a new version of the case, as happened here and in the Los Angeles prosecution of Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n
Rob Reiner had prolific career as actor and director<\/p>\n
Rob Reiner began as an actor, starring in the TV sitcom, \u201cAll in the Family,\u201d as Michael \u201cMeathead\u201d Stivic, the liberal son-in-law to a much more conservative and bigoted Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O\u2019Connor. Reiner won two Emmy Awards for the role, and last month got a posthumous Emmy nomination for his work as a guest star on \u201cThe Bear.\u201d<\/p>\n
He became a prolific director whose work included some of the most memorable and endlessly watchable movies of the 1980s and \u201990s. His credits included \u201cThis is Spinal Tap,\u201d \u201cStand By Me,\u201d \u201cA Few Good Men,\u201d and \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u2026\u201d during the production of which he met photographer Michele Singer. They wed soon after and were married for 36 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA County Public Defender\u2019s Office, which is representing Reiner, declined to comment on the indictment. Grand jury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-431466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}