Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead on Sunday with stab wounds, source close to the family told NBC News.
Prosecutors in California will file murder charges against Nick Reiner, the younger son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Tuesday.
Hochman said his office is expected to file two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance alleging multiple murders on Tuesday afternoon. Nick Reiner also faces a special allegation that he used a knife in the killings, Hochman told reporters.
Nick Reiner faces a maximum sentence of life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty if convicted, he said.
Just so you know, I’ve wondered the same thing. Like, in 50 years if my son snapped and killed me or some shit, I wouldn’t want him to get the death penalty.
Yes, and his parents seem like they really wanted what was best for him.
Why is leniency what’s best? From what I read, he’s had a number of chances and a habit of causing harm. This is a large escalation. It also seems like the parents had tried many things and that included tough love. Like as a quick test of your logic, do you think they would want leniency if he’d killed his sister instead? It’s easy to romanise people in death and I’m suspicious of the presumption here
Leniency in this case could be institutionalization as opposed to the death penalty or life in a regular prison.
Yep. And if he’d killed the sister? I’m not convinced there would be much advocacy compared to grasping at surviving while leaving the system to do its thing. And if that situation is too different, then there’s this from another poster:
You seem like someone that has strong views on this biased towards rehabilitation. I think in general there is too much incarceration instead of rehabilitation but I know I’m ignorant in cases like this. We’re lacking a lot of information and the son obviously needed treatment and was avoiding it but I’m wondering if you’re aware of statistics of rehabilitation in cases kind of like this: a bit more extreme and don’t seem like short sighted mistakes with paths towards rejoining society without being a risk. Obviously there inhumane and more humane, but in thinking about a reply to you I became curious about how effective interventions can be for more extreme cases
They were antivax loons tho. Not saying that means they deserved death, but the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree with their son.