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After weeks of delays, Nick Reiner was set to be arraigned for the murders of his dad and mom on Wednesday.

It didn’t occur, nevertheless, because of the truth that Reiner’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the case unexpectedly.

Nick is due again in courtroom on February 23, and his trial received’t get underway till a lot later.

However we’ve new details about the technique his protection group would possibly pursue as soon as they lastly start making their case.

For starters, Jackson has been changed by a public defender named Kimberly Greene.

And though she has 19 years of expertise, Greene will in all probability get replaced forward of Nick’s trial.

Rich homicide suspects don’t normally go to courtroom with public defenders as their legal professionals, and the Reiner case is popping out to be much less open-and-shut than beforehand thought.

Nick ‘went right into a spiral’ after change in psych meds, insiders declare

TMZ has produced a documentary in regards to the Reiner murders that’s set to premiere on Fox on Friday night time.

The movie options new details about Nick’s battle with psychological sickness, in addition to new insights in regards to the methods his protection group would possibly make use of.

We now know that Reiner was identified with schizoaffective dysfunction, and within the months earlier than his dad and mom had been killed, his medical doctors switched up his meds.

The change turned out to be disastrous, sources inform TMZ, and Nick’s situation deteriorated quickly.

Sources declare the brand new remedy brought on Nick to endure “an entire break from actuality.”

Insiders say Nick’s medical doctors additional failed him by not putting him on a psychiatric maintain whereas they tried to determine the combinattion of meds that might stabilize him.

The madness protection is notoriously troublesome to argue, however the truth that Nick was a sufferer of medical malpractice would possibly imply that he has a case.

TMZ notes that California is totally different from many different states, in that “a defendant doesn’t have to indicate he didn’t know the distinction between proper and flawed to make use of the madness protection, solely that he didn’t perceive the character and high quality of his act.”

Once more, all of that is simply hypothesis, however the truth that Jackson conclusively said that Nick will not be responsible of homicide in his remarks to the media on Wednesday is also taken as a sign that Reiner intends to make use of the madness protection.

TMZ Investigates The Reiner Murders: What Actually Occurred airs Friday night time on Fox.