Nick Reiner appears briefly in court, murder case delayed to September - BERITAJA

Nick Reiner made a little tribunal quality astatine a proceeding Wednesday successful Los Angeles successful the execution lawsuit involving the deaths of his parents, the precocious head Rob Reiner and his woman Michele Singer Reiner.

Reiner, who pleaded not blameworthy to 2 counts of first-degree murder pinch the typical condition of aggregate murders successful the deaths of his parents successful February, wore a yellowish jailhouse smock and only said erstwhile asked if he would waive a deadline to clasp a preliminary hearing, according to Variety, Beritaja and the Los Angeles Times.

“Uh, yeah,” he said, Variety reports.

The execution lawsuit will not proceed until September, successful portion owed to delays successful the accumulation of reports detailing the autopsies of his parents, officials said successful tribunal Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Chung reportedly said prosecutors person about 2 terabytes of find to supply to the defence and autopsy reports successful the lawsuit had yet to beryllium completed.

His adjacent tribunal quality will beryllium held connected Sept. 15.

Reiner was arrested connected Dec. 15 aft his 78-year-old begetter and 70-year-old mother were recovered dead pinch stab wounds successful their location successful the upscale Brentwood conception of Los Angeles connected Dec. 14, 2025, authorities said.

During Reiner’s court quality successful February, he only said to reply a mobility from the judge successful the affirmative.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said to reporters extracurricular the courthouse pursuing Reiner’s hearing.

“This lawsuit is simply a decease penalty-eligible case. Along those lines, we return the process successful which we find whether aliases not the decease punishment should beryllium sought highly earnestly and it goes done a very rigorous process,” Hochman said astatine the time.

“We person invited defence counsel to coming to america — some successful penning and orally — successful a meeting, immoderate arguments that they would for illustration to make successful information for our going guardant aliases not going guardant pinch the decease penalty,” Hochman added.

Reiner was set to participate a plea successful January astatine a proceeding successful Los Angeles, earlier his defence attorney, Alan Jackson, announced that he was withdrawing from the case. Reiner will now beryllium represented by nationalist defender Kimberly Greene.

“This greeting I had to retreat arsenic Nick Reiner’s counsel. Circumstances beyond our control, but much importantly, circumstances beyond Nick’s control, person dictated that, sadly, it’s made it intolerable for america to proceed our representation,” Jackson told reporters extracurricular the courthouse successful January.

“Be very, very clear about this — my squad and I stay deeply, profoundly committed to Nick Reiner and to his champion interests,” Jackson said. “In fact, we know, we’re not conscionable convinced, we cognize that the ineligible process will uncover the existent facts of the circumstances surrounding this case.”

“What we’ve learned — and you could return this to the slope — is that pursuant to the rule successful this state, Nick Reiner is not blameworthy of murder. Print that,” Jackson added.

Following the news, Reiner’s family told the New York Times successful a connection that they “have the utmost spot successful the ineligible process and will not remark further connected matters related to the ineligible proceedings.”

Last week, Jake Reiner, Nick’s brother, spoke retired for the first clip about the deaths of his parents in a individual effort titled “Mom and Dad.”

Two months aft his relative pleaded not guilty, Jake shared specifications connected Substack of the “living nightmare” he’s knowledgeable since learning what happened to them.

Jake shared that connected the day of Dec. 14, he was astatine a ceremony of life for 1 of his champion friends — who died successful October — erstwhile he received the news of his parents’ deaths.

“It was astatine that infinitesimal I received a telephone from my sister Romy telling maine our begetter was dead. Minutes later, she called backmost telling maine our mother was besides dead,” Jake wrote.

“The 45-minute Lyft thrust from downtown to the westbound broadside was unendurable. My world, arsenic I knew it, had collapsed. I was successful a trance.”

Jake said the only point he could attraction connected was getting to his puerility location to “figure retired what the hellhole conscionable happened.”

In his post, shared connected Friday, Jake wrote, “We mislaid much than half of our family that nighttime successful the about convulsive measurement imaginable.”

“Sure, immoderate nonaccomplishment of a genitor is devastating, but thing compares to losing some of them astatine the aforesaid clip and, connected apical of that, having your relative beryllium astatine the halfway of it,” he added.

Jake said he was telling his communicative and that his sister Romy “will show hers successful her ain measurement and successful her time.”

“What the hellhole do you opportunity to personification who is surviving done this reality? The truth is, location is thing to say. I conscionable inquire for emotion and compassion — the aforesaid principles my parents lived by,” his station concluded.

—With files from The Associated Press