Nick Reiner has officially entered a second not guilty plea in a Los Angeles court after a grand jury indicted him on upgraded murder charges that make him eligible for the death penalty. The 32-year-old defendant stands accused of killing his parents, the acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, who were found dead at their Brentwood home on 14th December.
For context, the requirement for a renewed legal plea was triggered when prosecutors formally replaced the original murder complaint with new charges brought by a grand jury. When those court documents were officially unsealed on Wednesday, they introduced a particularly sinister new element to the high-profile case. The updated indictment explicitly alleges that the younger Reiner lay in wait for his mother and father prior to the fatal attack.
