CA - Murder victims Identified as Rob Reiner and wife Michele - LA Dec 14 2025

[arielilane]

NR next court date 2/23/2026

 

[BUF]

Arraignment continued to Feb 23 with his public defender

Per STS from Fox report

They are getting ready to show pool camera footage

 

[tlcya]

Counsel Jackson has withdrawn as counsel of record for Nick for reasons provided to the judge in chambers. The public defenders office stands ready to step in as counsel for the defendant. For this reason the arraignment has been continued to February 23, 2026.

 

[Wishbone]

Cash flow problem for AJ? And now NR has a public defender and the state of Ca gets to pick up the tab.JMOO

 

[Sadi]

Cash flow problem for AJ? And now NR has a public defender and the state of Ca gets to pick up the tab.JMOO

Doesn’t his family/siblings have access to money/estate to pay for his legal fees?

 

[tlcya]

Doesn’t his family/siblings have access to money/estate to pay for his legal fees?

as a sibling whose brother has murdered your parents, do you think paying his legal fees is something that should be expected of you?

If they choose to do so I would not judge them, but IMO it matters not if the remaining Reiner children can afford to pay their brother's legal fees or not, that is not something that should ever be expected of them.

 

[Wishbone]

Doesn’t his family/siblings have access to money/estate to pay for his legal fees?

I would think so, but who knows even if they have access to funds that they want to pay for his defense. Maybe we will learn more if the presser ever gets started.......

 

[arielilane]

Maybe NR was being difficult to work (is he another Sarah Boone) with. His own parents had difficulty with him. opinion

 

[femto]

I think the problem is that his psyche was already damaged. He had been aggressive and confrontational towards his family for quite awhile. They could not control his outbursts and defiant behaviour once he became a big, strong teenager.

There is no evidence that this is the case. He has said repeatedly (in interviews and on Dopey) that he and Rob never really 'fought' in terms of outbursts or anything like that. They had a strenuous relationship but it wasn't a violatile one. At least it wasn't when he was still in his early 20s.

What if they don't reach that conclusion by themselves? What does a parent do if their child is doing drugs day and night and refusing to go to school or behave at home?

Then they should have cut him off completely. Let him figure it out himself and if he ever gets his head together, then help him. Instead they took a half-assed approach. Send him to clinics on the far side of the country so you don't have to deal with his issue but at the same time keep indulging him. "Ok, you ran away from this one, now we'll send you to another" type of deal. As I said, I think sending him to these therapies instead of dealing with him under close supervision, especially during those developmental years, was the wrong choice (imo) but if you're gonna do that, then go full in. You can't do it middle of the road type of thing. As far as the school part goes, did he actually refuse to go to school or they simply thought that they can just buy a diploma because they're rich? School was of no consequence to them. They could find him a high paying job any time he wanted to.

I think it's possible he was being manipulative. He wasn't just speaking to the podcasters, he was speaking to his audience and to his family. He knew they'd be hearing it. It was a nice Eff You to them, imo.

Only Nick knows but I find no reason not to believe him. He shared pretty embarrassing stories about himself on same podcast and I never felt that he was lying or omitting the truth at any point. He came off as pretty forthcoming in the interview and never seemed like he was making these stories up

They tried that^^^ for years. It didn't work. He had been defiant and aggressive since childhood. He had been under their direct supervision. It was not working.

There's no evidence of that. There's some stories, whether true or not, in which he was acting like a petulant kid, sure. But if that is your benchmark of aggressive probably half of the kids going through adolescence meet that criteria

They hoped that 'experts' would be able to help him because they were failing.

Were they failing? If you believe his story, they never really tried. They just sent him to rehab after that incident with his friend. From then on it was rehab after rehab. They tried to solve his problems with money, not with attention and care he should have gotten. Obviously we don't have a full picture of their family dynamics, but 18 rehab stints by the time you're 19 seems extremely excessive.

Doesn’t his family/siblings have access to money/estate to pay for his legal fees?

They have a very valid reason as to why they wouldn't want to do that.

 

[IQuestion]

Gut feeling? There is a "no money available to pay fees."

 

[Wishbone]

Oh my.....per AJ, NR is NOT GUILTY OF MURDER.

 

[arielilane]

Alan Jackson has withdrawn as Nick Reiner’s attorney.

In court Alan Jackson said he had “no choice” but to withdraw as Nick Reiner’s attorney.

Alan Jackson said he had to withdraw as Nick Reiner's attorney for "circumstances out of Nick's control."He says he can't legally explain why -- and the public defender will step in.

@BrianEntin

 

[NuttMegg]

Sounds like he was fired. The way he snarled "Nick Reiner is not guilty, print that", he was angry.

Someone turned the faucet off.

Imo

 

[femto]

Sounds like he was fired. The way he snarled Nick Reiner is not guilty, print that", he was angry.

Imo

No, to me it sounds like it was an issue of money. His siblings don't want to pay for him. He seemed pretty zealous over Nick's innocence, not something I would imagine he would do if they had a quarrel. Nick has no money of his own to pay Jackson since by killing his parents he would inherit zilch.

 

[arielilane]

Alan Jackson, the attorney who had repped Nick Reiner but withdrew from the case, tells reporters outside of the courthouse: “Pursuant to the law of California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder, print that.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008971035345908157

 

[Sadi]

Or the money isn't going to be available to pay him his fees?

I think you’re 1,000% correct!

 

[Sadi]

Alan Jackson, the attorney who had repped Nick Reiner but withdrew from the case, tells reporters outside of the courthouse: “Pursuant to the law of California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder, print that.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008971035345908157

I think he believes that, but left off “by reason of insanity”, he can’t say that.

 

[arielilane]

When a lawyer withdraws on a high profile case, the cause of which is usually money or a fundamental disagreement on how to proceed. I have to think it is the former as this case is ripe for a NGI defense (Not Guilty by reason of insanity).

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008957323835003379

 

[Sadi]

as a sibling whose brother has murdered your parents, do you think paying his legal fees is something that should be expected of you?

If they choose to do so I would not judge them, but IMO it matters not if the remaining Reiner children can afford to pay their brother's legal fees or not, that is not something that should ever be expected of them.

I absolutely would not, no way.

 

[Megnut]

Alan Jackson, the attorney who had repped Nick Reiner but withdrew from the case, tells reporters outside of the courthouse: “Pursuant to the law of California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder, print that.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008971035345908157

Pursuant to the law of every State, every defendant is not guilty.

Until proven.

No bombshell.

But what is a bombshell is that IMO AJ didn't know he was out of a job until today.

Unless the anger is an act.

But it seems real.

JMO