{"id":485943,"date":"2026-02-23T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:33:09","slug":"nick-reiner-may-enter-plea-in-killing-of-his-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485943\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Reiner may enter plea in killing of his parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Nick Reiner<\/a> may finally enter a plea Monday in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner<\/a> and Michele Singer Reiner<\/a>, after two previous court hearings that brought some drama but little practical progress in the case. <\/p>\n

Reiner is set to appear in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for his arraignment on two counts of first-degree murder with his new attorney Kimberly Greene, a public defender. <\/p>\n

Reiner, 32, the third of Rob Reiner\u2019s four children, has been held without bail since his arrest hours after the actor-director and his wife of 36 years were found dead with stab wounds on Dec. 14 at their home in the upscale Brentwood section of Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

Reiner\u2019s previous attorney<\/a>, the high-profile private lawyer Alan Jackson, had to quit the case at the previous hearing in January because of what he called circumstances beyond his and his client\u2019s control. He said legal ethics would not allow him to say why, but in parting he adamantly declared outside the courthouse that \u201cpursuant to the laws of California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson did not elaborate but said the conclusion came after weeks of intensive investigation before his team had to hand the case off. He said he wanted to push back against false reporting on the case. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear who hired Jackson to represent Reiner or who was paying the bill. Generally, defendants use public defenders when they can\u2019t afford a private attorney. <\/p>\n

Reiner is expected to plead not guilty, as is common for criminal defendants at this stage of the case, whatever their longer-term plan might be. <\/p>\n

Reiner wore a suicide prevention smock at his initial court appearance<\/a> in December but appeared without it at the hearing in January. <\/p>\n

Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, died from \u201cmultiple sharp force injuries,\u201d the LA County Medical Examiner said in initial findings. Authorities said they were killed hours before the bodies were discovered. A court order has prevented the release of more details. Authorities have said nothing about possible motives. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said they have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty for Nick Reiner, who is eligible for it under the charges. <\/p>\n

Rob Reiner was a prolific director whose work included some of the most memorable and endlessly watchable movies<\/a> 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 whose production he met photographer Michele Singer and married her soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Nick Reiner may finally enter a plea Monday in the killing of his parents,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[176244,1927,2224,2356,2302,3071,88,793,694,3073,223503,4381,3031,174323,174324,91565,795],"class_list":["post-485943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alan-jackson","tag-ap-top-news","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-homicide","tag-indictments","tag-kimberly-greene","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-michele-singer-reiner","tag-nick-reiner","tag-rob-reiner","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}