Nick Reiner murder case delayed until September, autopsy reports still not prepared

The execution lawsuit against Nick Reiner volition not proceed until September, successful portion owed to delays successful the accumulation of reports detailing the autopsies of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, officials said successful tribunal Wednesday.

Reiner, 32, was charged with sidesplitting his parents wrong the maestro chamber of the family’s Brentwood property past December. Rob and Michele were recovered stabbed to decease connected Dec. 14, and their lad was arrested successful Exposition Park astir 12 hours later.

During a little proceeding successful downtown L.A. connected Wednesday, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jonathan Chung said prosecutors inactive person astir 2 terabytes of find to supply to the defense. Chung said autopsy reports successful the lawsuit had yet to beryllium completed.

It was not wide wherefore the reports had yet to beryllium completed much than 4 months aft the killings. The Los Angeles County aesculapian examiner’s bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County territory attorney’s bureau declined to remark extracurricular the courtroom.

Reiner appeared wearing a yellowish jailhouse jumper with his hairsbreadth chopped short. He hardly spoke during the proceeding different than to reply “yes” to a fewer questions from Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta.

A motive successful the slayings has not been made public, though Reiner had spoken publically astir his struggles with intelligence wellness and addiction. The begetter and lad worked unneurotic to make the 2015 movie “Being Charlie,” successful which characters that were thinly veiled versions of Rob and Nick explored however drugs could harm a narration betwixt a palmy histrion and his privileged lad who was successful the throes of addiction.

Nick Reiner pleaded not blameworthy successful February, but his lawsuit has different been stalled by procedural delays.

High-profile defence lawyer Alan Jackson dropped retired of the lawsuit earlier this year, and has yet to publically explicate why. Reiner is present represented by the Los Angeles County nationalist defender’s office, which has not said however oregon if its client’s intelligence wellness and addiction struggles volition origin into the defense.

Prosecutors charged Reiner with execution with peculiar circumstances, truthful helium could look the decease punishment if convicted astatine trial. Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman has not said erstwhile prosecutors volition marque a determination astir seeking superior punishment.