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Nick Reiner briefly spoke in court on Wednesday, January 7.
During Wednesday’s hearing, lawyer Alan Jackson announced his decision to withdraw from the case, sharing that the public defender’s office would be taking over. Nick’s newly appointed public defender requested that the judge to push her client’s arraignment to February 23, 2026. The judge accepted, before turning to Nick and asking if he waived his right to be arraigned until the next hearing date.
“Yeah, I agree,” Nick could be heard saying in several live feeds from inside the court room. While his lawyer and the judge were shown, Nick did not appear on camera.
Nick is waiting to be arraigned on first-degree murder charges following the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
“They have the utmost trust in the legal process and will not comment further on matters related to the legal proceedings,” a spokesperson for the Reiner family shared in a statement on Wednesday.
Nick’s parents, Rob and Michele, were found dead in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on December 14. Nick was arrested that night and held without bail. Two days later, he was officially charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Nick initially appeared in court on December 17, the same day that the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed Rob and Michele died from “multiple sharp force injuries.” Nick chose not to enter a plea during his first hearing since his attorney Alan Jackson claimed it was “too early” to do so.
“This is a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner family,” Jackson told reporters outside of the courthouse at the time. “We all recognized that our hearts go out to the entire Reiner family. There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case. Those need to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with and examined and looked at and analyzed.”
Rob Weiner, Michele Weiner Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Netflix
Jackson then asked the public to “allow the system to move forward in the way that it was designed to move forward, not with a rushed judgment, not with jumping to conclusions, but with restraint and with dignity, and with the respect that this system and this process deserves and that the family deserves.”
After Nick’s first court hearing, his siblings Jake, 34, and Romy, 28, spoke out in a statement.
“Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day. The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience,” their statement said. “They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
Rob Reiner’s family has always been synonymous with showbiz. The Princess Bride director and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles, home on Sunday, December 14. Rob leaves behind four children. Rob, who was 78, won two Emmy Awards for his role as Mike “Meathead” Stivic in the classic […]
They continued, “We are grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness and support we have received not only from family and friends but people from all walks of life.”
Although Jake and Romy did not directly refer to Nick’s case, the pair alluded to the sensitive nature of the circumstances surrounding their parents’ deaths.
Their statement concluded: “We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave.”
Rob and Michele — who were 78 and 70, respectively, at the time of their deaths — married in May 1989. In addition to sharing Jake, Nick and Romy with Michele, Rob was also the father of daughter Tracy, 61, whom he adopted during his first marriage to Penny Marshall.
