Rob Reiner’s troubled son Nick Reiner is slated to appear in a Los Angeles court Wednesday to answer for allegedly fatally stabbing his movie legend dad and mom Michele.
The 32-year-old nepo baby is only appearing for the second time in Los Angeles Superior Court after the “When Harry Met Sally” director and his wife were found dead inside their Brentwood mansion on Dec. 14.
Nick is slated to be arraigned on two counts of first-degree murder for which he faces life in prison or the death penalty if convicted at trial. The district attorney’s office hasn’t announced yet whether it will pursue capital punishment in Reiner’s case.
During his first court appearance last month, Nick was forced to wear a blue suicide vest. He was taken off of suicide watch earlier this week.
Rob, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, attended Conan O’Brien’s holiday party with Nick hours before the slayings. Nick got into a row with his parents at the party possibly because he was back on drugs and refusing to return to rehab, sources told The Post last month.
Hours later, the middle child — who had done over a dozen stints in rehab as part of his ongoing battle with addiction — is accused of slashing his parents throats and leaving them for dead.
Nick was arrested by cops hours later about 15 miles away from home near the University of Southern California campus.
Nick’s sister, Romy, discovered the tragedy when she went to check on Rob and Michele after a massage therapist received no answer at the gate of their home, the New York Times reported.
Nick is represented by hotshot lawyer Alan Jackson who notably recently helped clinch an acquittal for Karen Read, in a case accusing her of murdering her cop boyfriend.
Nick could face the death penalty since the murder case involves the killing of more than one person.
And while the DA’s office must decide whether to pursue death in Nick’s case, California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 signed an executive order barring all executions. The governor will not be able to run again when his term is up at the end of the year since he will have completed his second term.
