Nick Reiner Week In Review: Million-Dollar Lawyer Gone, Public Defender In, and the Warning Signs Before December 14th

Everything we covered this week on the Nick Reiner case — the dramatic defense shakeup, the warning signs that stretched back years, and the system that left Rob and Michele Reiner with no options.

Alan Jackson is out. The million-dollar defense attorney who got Karen Read acquitted told the court he had "no choice" but to withdraw, citing circumstances "beyond Nick's control." Sources say money ran out. For seventeen years, Rob and Michele Reiner wrote checks — eighteen rehab programs, seventy thousand dollars a month in treatment, a ten-thousand-dollar monthly allowance, a rent-free guesthouse. Sources said estate funds were still paying for Nick's elite defense after their deaths. That's over now. Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene was informed last night, met Nick for thirty seconds, and now carries a case that will define careers. Arraignment postponed to February 23rd.

But this week we also examined what everyone saw coming. A neighbor said this wasn't the first time Nick had been violent. An LAPD insider confirmed multiple calls for service to the Reiner home. The night before December 14th, Nick was reportedly so erratic at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party that guests were unnerved. Rob allegedly told friends: "I'm petrified of Nick. I think my own son can hurt me." Twelve hours later, Rob and Michele were stabbed to death in their bedroom.

Bob Motta joined us to examine the warning signs and the legal barriers that prevented intervention. California's LPS Act requires imminent danger — not probable, not deteriorating. For the first time in thirty-two years, Nick Reiner faces the justice system without unlimited resources. Some tragedies are preventable. Some aren't.

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