Posted on 01/21/2026 1:15:54 PM PST by Angelino97
A new “TMZ Investigates” special on Fox Nation claims Nick Reiner is in no mental state to stand trial for the alleged murders of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, as the program reveals new details about his mental state, medication changes and the case against him.
“He is not competent to stand trial right now. He is almost childlike in jail, we’re told,” TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin told “Fox & Friends” on Monday.
“He can’t process the consequences of what he’s done. He knows what he did. He just can’t understand where he is right now, and I know that sounds crazy, but he is out of his head right now.”
Doctors had changed Nick’s medication a month before the murders due to his complaints of weight gain, and that adjustment “messed Nick up,” Levin said, explaining that Nick was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder — which can cause delusions, hallucinations and mood disorders.
Levin described the alleged murders as “incredibly brutal.”
“We know people in the medical examiner’s office who are traumatized just by the pictures,” he said.
He claimed the killings had “all the markings of a meth murder” and that Nick had been using meth when he was “off the rails” after his medication switch-up, adding that he was arrested in a drug den.
“It has the markings of somebody who was just wild, wildly strong. We have not gotten the confirmation of that, but we’ve talked to people… If he were just Nick Reiner without something additional, the carnage wouldn’t have been the way it was,” Levin said.
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Next he’ll be taking the second generation meathead defense
As soon as I discovered they were killed in their bed I suspected he went to the house to kill them and take all cash he found to go buy drugs. I suspect that even more now.
What is an “alleged” murder?
One you can’t be sued over if you use that term.
LEVIN IS NOT HELPING THE SITUATION, IMO.
“ I just blacked out, don’t remember anything.”
I can’t remember
My minds in a blender
It’s jello!
Voluntary intoxication is not a defense to a crime.
“””Voluntary intoxication is not a defense to a crime.”””
But is sounds cool. Even if it has no meaning at all or effect on the case.
Probably coming down from his drugs. $10,000 a month allowance, no job, rent and utils paid, all the free time in the world.....
I had three cousins who were not competent due to retardation, autism, etc. They were never aggressive and never robbed or killed anyone. If they had I would say they should suffer the same punishment as a person who is “normal”. Once a person commits murder they should never be free, out on the streets again. I’d say lock them up.
Long past time to reopen the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s! When closed and the crazies declared sane enough to be dumped on the streets the murder rate by crazies took off like a rocket!
You people are heartless. Let him out and give him a list of Hollywood leftists that are dating Jodi Foster.
A psychotic friend of mine takes meds, but when they need to be changed, he is admitted to hospital.
Yeah, but he is a bad kid.
I think we’re past the point of the murders being “alleged”. If not, then somebody better call the undertaker!
Just read the headline, but have to observe, why is anyone interested in this man? He butchered his parents.
Nick Reiner is currently charged with two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders. Conviction means 25 years to life, without parole if special circumstances are found, which seems certain under such a charge is pursued and sustained.
However, the State of California punishes voluntary manslaughter with anywhere from 3 to 11 years in prison. A clear path to such an outcome for Reiner is to prove mental illness as a basis for diminished capacity and lack of full premeditation.
That is probably where the case is headed. Despite the extreme violence of the crime and the celebrity of the victims, this is basically a case of killings by a mentally ill meth head known for bitter arguments with his parent victims.
That being so, the crime under California law is voluntary manslaughter, not first degree murder. That makes for a limited prison term.
Leftists want to tell us how we must live our lives.
Maybe they should mind their own business.
He’s out on the street right now.
It’s a good things conservatives don’t do that at all.
🙄
I’m still not going to hang out with him once he’s out.
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