A Los Angeles Superior Courtroom choose has agreed to bar the discharge of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s post-mortem studies on the request of regulation enforcement investigating the dying of the Hollywood legend and his photographer spouse.
In a ready assertion, the Los Angeles County medical expert’s workplace mentioned that it acquired a courtroom order final week initiated by the Los Angeles Police Division to position a safety maintain on the instances. The order, signed by Decide Deirdre Hill, restricts the general public launch of “any investigative info, notes, studies or pictures” associated to the dying investigation, in response to the doc obtained by The Occasions on Monday.
The medical expert’s workplace had beforehand confirmed their deaths had been the results of murder, itemizing the trigger as “a number of sharp power accidents” in its public database.
“As a result of courtroom order, the knowledge is not obtainable,” the medical expert’s workplace wrote. “No different case info or data, together with the Medical Examiner report, will be launched or posted on the web site till additional discover.”
The LAPD sought to seal the data “to make sure detectives from Theft-Murder Division realized of vital info surrounding their deaths earlier than the media and the general public,” the division mentioned in an announcement The Occasions on Monday.
“The order was not sought to undermine transparency,” the division added.
Safety holds are utilized by regulation enforcement businesses to forestall the discharge of particulars from an post-mortem, notes written by coroner’s investigators or outcomes from toxicology and different exams throughout a dying investigation. They’ve been utilized in a number of celeb and high-profile instances together with following the deaths of singer Whitney Houston, actor Paul Walker and the spouse of actor Robert Blake.
Final month, a Los Angeles Police detective wrote in courtroom paperwork searching for the stop the discharge of post-mortem particulars surrounding the dying of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez that publishing such info might jeopardize their investigation. Celeste’s physique was present in September within the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla.
The slayings of Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, have given rise to a intensely watched authorized wrestle involving their son Nick, who has been charged within the killings.
Prosecutors allege the 32-year-old fatally stabbed his mother and father inside the main bedroom of their Brentwood residence early Dec. 14 after which fled. He was arrested that evening in Exposition Park close to USC.
Nick Reiner might face life in jail with out parole, or the dying penalty if convicted. He has not but entered a plea and is predicted to look in courtroom on Jan. 7.
Authorities haven’t provided a motive for the assault.
Nick Reiner struggled with habit for years and had been prescribed remedy for schizophrenia in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the killings, in response to two sources with information of the prison investigation.
Sources have additionally mentioned he had been appearing unusually and acquired into some sort of argument with Rob Reiner at a vacation social gathering at speak present host Conan O’Brien’s home hours earlier than the slayings. It’s not clear what they had been arguing about. Some household associates informed The Occasions the conflict had been “overblown.”
