Nick Reiner makes first court appearance after parents' killings [View all]

Source: Washington Post

Nick Reiner briefly made his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after he was charged with fatally stabbing his parents, 78-year-old filmmaker Rob Reiner and 70-year-old photographer Michele Singer Reiner in a gruesome killing of two Hollywood icons.

The Reiners’ 32-year-old son attended the court hearing behind a glass wall, in shackles and a jail suicide-prevention smock. He did not enter a plea, as had been expected, the Associated Press reported. Instead, his arraignment was postponed to Jan. 7 while his lawyer emphasized the intricacies of the case.

“This is a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner family. We all recognize that,” Nick’s attorney, Alan Jackson, said outside the courthouse following the hearing. “There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case. Those need to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with.”

Jackson added a request for people to “allow the system to move forward in the way that it was designed to move forward: not with a rush to judgment, not with jumping to conclusions, but with restraint, and with dignity, and with the respect that the system and its process deserves and that the family deserves.”

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