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Final week, famed protection lawyer Alan Jackson withdrew from Nick Reiner’s case simply hours earlier than Reiner was due in court docket for his arraignment.

The information got here as a shock to many, and the decide in Reiner’s case was pressured to postpone the arraignment.

Per week later, Reiner remains to be being represented by a public defender — an excessive rarity in a star homicide case — and Jackson is lastly breaking his silence on this weird state of affairs.

Showing on Billy Bush’s “Scorching Mic” podcast, Jackson gave his first interview since his withdrawal from the case.

Sadly, he cited attorney-client privilege as his cause for offering little or no element.

“That’s a confidential communication between quite a lot of of us that I’m not prepared to reveal,” Jackson defined (per Web page Six).

Whereas he refused to enter specifics, he famous that the withdrawal was not the results of a cost difficulty.

“You’ll be able to’t say that one thing occurred with the retainer as a result of I’ve by no means stated that,” Jackson defined, including:

“Clearly, one thing occurred with my potential, and my staff’s potential, to proceed the illustration, however I don’t need you, your viewers or anyone else to begin speculating as to what that could be. I’ve not stated a phrase about it.”

He additionally famous that he definitively is not going to be returning to Reiner’s protection staff, saying:

“As soon as I’m achieved, I’m achieved. I’ve withdrawn.”

As for the way he got here to symbolize Reiner within the first place, Jackson revealed that he obtained a telephone name within the “very early hours of December 15.″ He refused to determine the caller.

“I’ve to point out fealty and loyalty to the confidentiality that attends that type of telephone name … I can let you know that instantly thereafter, I dropped the whole lot,” he informed Bush.

“I despatched out a discover to my staff right here again in Los Angeles … I acquired on a flight almost instantly.”

Reiner, after all, has been charged with the murders of his dad and mom, Rob and Michele Reiner.

He’s at the moment being held with out bail and is due again in court docket for on February 23, at which era he’ll lastly be arraigned.

Jackson has represented quite a few well-known purchasers, together with, most just lately, Karen Learn, who was acquitted of the homicide of her police officer husband final yr.

We may have additional updates on this creating story as new data turns into out there.