A Los Angeles Superior Courtroom choose has agreed to bar the discharge of Robert Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s post-mortem studies on the request of regulation enforcement investigating the loss of life of the Hollywood legend and his photographer spouse.
In a ready assertion, the Los Angeles County medical expert’s workplace stated that it acquired a court docket 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 loss of life investigation, based on the doc obtained by The Instances on Monday.
The medical expert’s workplace had beforehand confirmed their deaths have been the results of murder, itemizing the trigger as “a number of sharp power accidents” in its public database.
“As a result of court docket, order the knowledge is not out there,” the medical expert’s workplace wrote. “No different case info or data, together with the Medical Examiner report, may 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 necessary info surrounding their deaths earlier than the media and the general public,” the division stated in an announcement The Instances on Monday.
“The order was not sought to undermine transparency,” the division added.
Safety holds are utilized by varied regulation enforcement companies to forestall the discharge of particulars from an post-mortem, notes written by coroner’s investigators or outcomes from toxicology and different checks throughout a loss of life 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 court docket paperwork in search of the stop the discharge of post-mortem particulars surrounding the loss of life of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez that publishing such info might jeopardize their investigation. Hernandez’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 couple’s 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, fatally stabbed his dad and mom inside the main bedroom of their Brentwood house early Dec. 14 after which fled the realm. He was arrested that evening in Exposition Park close to USC.
Reiner might face life in jail with out parole, or the loss of life penalty if convicted. He has not but entered a plea and is anticipated to seem in court docket on Jan. 7.
Authorities haven’t supplied a motive for the Dec. 14 assault.
Nick Reiner struggled with dependancy for years and had been prescribed medicine for schizophrenia in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the killings, based on two sources with information of the legal investigation.
Sources have additionally stated he had been performing surprisingly and bought into some kind of argument with Rob Reiner at a vacation get together at speak present host Conan O’Brien’s home hours earlier than the slaying. It’s not clear what particularly they have been arguing about. However some household buddies instructed The Instances the conflict had been “overblown.”
