LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner in the murders of his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Tuesday, ABC News reported. If convicted, the maximum sentence would be life in prison without the possibility of parole, Hochman said. NBC News and The Wall Street Journal carried the same decision.

Hochman said his office weighed aggravating and mitigating factors and consulted victims’ loved ones, prosecutors, and law enforcement. Nick Reiner’s siblings, Jake and Romy Reiner, made their views about the death penalty “very clear,” and the office took those views into account in deciding not to seek capital punishment, Hochman said, per ABC.

Nick Reiner, who turned 33 on Monday, is accused of fatally stabbing his parents at the family’s home in December 2025. An indictment unsealed earlier charged him with two counts of murder with special-circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder by means of lying in wait, plus a special allegation that he used a dangerous and deadly weapon (a knife). He has pleaded not guilty. A criminal charge is an accusation; he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Hochman said Nick Reiner was also due in court Tuesday on a hearing over whether to unseal grand-jury transcripts. Jake and Romy Reiner expressed a “strong desire for these transcripts to remain sealed,” arguing public disclosure of details and evidence would cause additional trauma, Hochman said. Prosecutors told the court they do not believe unsealing would prejudice the investigation or the defendant’s right to a fair trial, but deferred the unsealing decision to the court.

No trial date has been set. Hochman said he believes a trial will not occur before 2027 and that when the defense is ready to proceed, the government will be ready. Even if prosecutors had sought death, California has not carried out an execution in roughly two decades, and Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019 — making a capital notice largely symbolic in practice, outlets noted.

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