Nick Reiner murder case delayed until September, autopsy reports still not complete
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The murder case against Nick Reiner will not proceed until September, in part due to delays in the release of reports detailing the autopsies of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, officials said in court Wednesday.Reiner, 32, was charged with killing his parents inside the master bedroom of the family’s Brentwood estate last December.Rob and Michele were found stabbed to death on Dec.
14, and their son was arrested in Exposition Park roughly 12 hours later.He has pleaded not guilty.
During a brief hearing in downtown L.A.on Wednesday, Deputy Dist.
Atty.Jonathan Chung said prosecutors still have nearly two terabytes of discovery to provide to the defense.
Chung said autopsy reports in the case had yet to be prepared.Josh Rubenstein, communications director for the district attorney’s office, later confirmed the reports are “not complete.”It was not clear why the reports had yet to be completed more than four months after the killings.
Kelly Vail, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, said both cases remain on “security hold via court order initiated by the” Los Angeles Police Department.Rubenstein said either the LAPD or the D.A.’s office will have to move to unseal the autopsies, when they are completed.Representatives for the LAPD and the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s office, which is representing Reiner, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Both victims were killed with a knife, according to a death certificate for Rob and Michele.Nick Reiner appeared wearing a yellow jail jumper with his hair cut short.
He barely spoke during the hearing other than to answer “yes” to a few questions from Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta.A motive in the slayings has not been made public, though Reiner had spoken publicly about his struggles with mental health and addiction.
The father and son worked together ...