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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A high-profile lawyer representing Nick Reiner withdrew from the double-murder lawsuit during a proceeding Wednesday greeting successful a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, wherever Reiner was being arraigned successful transportation with the murders of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.
Attorney Alan Jackson unexpectedly informed the presiding justice that helium was nary longer representing the 32-year-old Reiner, who was past assigned a nationalist defender.
Jackson is nether a protective bid to not speech astir the case.
The proceeding is ongoing.
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Nick Reiner, the lad of manager Rob Reiner and his woman Michele, is expected backmost successful tribunal Wednesday to beryllium arraigned connected first-degree execution charges.
Reiner, 32, the youngest of Rob Reiner's 4 children, is accused of sidesplitting his parents astatine their Brentwood location past month. He was ordered to stay down bars astatine the Twin Towers Correctional Facility successful downtown Los Angeles without bail pursuing his archetypal tribunal quality connected Dec. 17, erstwhile helium wore shackles and a termination prevention smock.
He could participate a not blameworthy plea by crushed of insanity. According to ABC News sources, instrumentality enforcement and defence attorneys person been piecing unneurotic Nick's psychiatric and substance maltreatment history.
He was reportedly removed from termination watch up of his arraignment.
Nick Reiner has been charged with the murders of his parents, renowned manager Rob Reiner and his woman Michele Singer, officials announced connected Tuesday.
Reiner's attorney, Alan Jackson, has fixed nary denotation of the plans for his defense. Nearly each defendants successful transgression cases plead not blameworthy astatine this stage. Jackson could besides inquire for different hold earlier a plea is entered.
If Nick Reiner pleads not guilty, the lawsuit would usually caput toward a preliminary proceeding to find whether determination is capable grounds for him to basal trial. His intelligence competence for proceedings could besides beryllium a factor.
A decennary ago, Nick Reiner publically discussed his terrible struggles with addiction and intelligence wellness aft making a movie with his father, "Being Charlie," that was precise loosely based connected their lives.
Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were killed aboriginal connected the greeting of Dec. 14, and they were recovered successful the precocious afternoon, authorities said. The L.A. County Medical Examiner said successful archetypal findings that they died from "multiple crisp unit injuries," but released nary different details, and constabulary person said thing astir imaginable motives.
The counts against Reiner travel with peculiar circumstances of aggregate murders and an allegation that helium utilized a unsafe weapon, a knife. The additions could mean a greater sentence.
Prosecutors person said they person not yet decided whether to question the decease penalty.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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