The younger son of Hollywood filmmaker and political luminary Rob Reiner made his first court appearance, charged with double murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, but the arraignment was postponed for three weeks, and he did not enter a plea.
Nick Reiner, 32, was ordered to return to Los Angeles County Superior Court for a continuation of his arraignment on January 7.
No explanation was given in court for the delay in the hearing, which was requested by the defence.
Bearded appeared in court three days after his arrest and a day after he was charged with one of the most shocking celebrity homicide cases in the city’s history.
He is accused of fatally stabbing his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner, 78, and photographer-producer Michele Reiner, 70, in the early morning hours of Sunday in the couple’s Los Angeles mansion.