A “grim-faced” Nick Reiner made his first appearance in court on Wednesday wearing shackles and a blue suicide prevention smock, reports say.
The nepo baby has been slapped with murder charges for the gruesome weekend slaying of his parents, the famed filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, 70.
It is the first time Nick, 32, has been seen by the public since the double murder inside the Los Angeles home he lived in with his parents. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
“The accused double-murderer was shackled and behind a glass wall and stared straight ahead during the brief court appearance,” wrote the New York Post, which had a reporter in the courtroom.
Reiner did not enter a plea on Wednesday as expected. Instead, his high-profile attorney, Alan Jackson, who previously represented Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, asked for his arraignment to be delayed.
The judge agreed to push the arraignment to Jan. 7. Nick will remain in custody without bail until then.
Jackson also pushed back against news cameras recording his client wearing a suicide prevention vest, which is why networks, including Fox News, had to divert their cameras.
Shortly after his appearance, Nick’s two biological siblings made their first public statement since their parents’ grisly deaths.
“Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day,” said the statement from Romy, 28, and Jake, 34.
They continued, “The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
Their statement made no mention of Nick, who could face the death penalty if convicted.
The troubled middle child was arrested Sunday night near the University of Southern California—about 15 miles from the Brentwood mansion where he lived with his parents.
The double murder occurred sometime between Saturday evening—when Nick begrudgingly accompanied his parents to Conan O’Brien’s Christmas Party, where he bugged A-list guests and got into a “loud argument”—and Sunday afternoon, when a horrified Romy discovered their bodies.
