No Death Penalty For Nick Reiner, L.A. DA Announces

Nick Reiner will not face the death penalty if the youngest son of Rob and Michelle Reiner is found guilty for the killing of his parents, the Los Angeles County District Attorney revealed this morning.

“In deciding whether or not the DA’s office was going to seek the death penalty, we have gone through a rigorous review where we look at the aggravating factors as well as the mitigating factors,” Nathan Hochman said Tuesday outside downtown’s Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. “We have spoken to the victim’s family, we have spoken to prosecutors, law enforcement, and have worked with the most senior people in the district attorney’s office.”

The Being Charlie co-writer has been custody in DTLA since his arrest on December 14 soon after his parents’ bludgeoned bodies were discovered in their Brentwood home. Currently being represented the Public Defender’s Office while he fights for access to a trust fund to pay for private attorneys, Reiner, entered a not guilty plea to the charges on August 12 in a brief hearing.

“After a careful and thorough review of all these factors, the district attorney’s office will not be seeking the death penalty in this case. That means that the maximum sentence that mr. Weiner will be looking at is life without the possibility of parole.”

In the second indictment handed down on July 20, which replaces the previous one of December 15, 2025, the just turned 33-year old Reiner faces two counts of murder with the special-circumstance allegations of multiple murders. In addition to the charge of lying in wait which was added this summer, there is also another special allegation that he personally used “a dangerous and deadly weapon, a knife,” according to prosecutors.

Removing the ultimate sword of Damocles from the Reiner case, the long awaited decision by Hochman’s office comes just before a 9 am PT hearing today on whether or not grand jury documents in the gruesome matter should be unsealed.