Nick Reiner Smirks in Court As His Famous Attorney Walks off The Case | Crime Alert Recap 01.10.2026
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
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Chaos in the courtroom as Nick Reiner's legal eagle abandons him on arraignment day. Alan Jackson says he's dropping out due to circumstances beyond "his & Nick's control." The son of film icon Rob Reiner will go from being repped by a celeb lawyer to public defender.
Harvey Weinstein is considering a guilty plea to address an unresolved rape charge and potentially avoid a third trial in New York, as mentioned by a judge on Thursday.
A father in Tennessee is speaking out after investigators say a mother killed her two young sons and their grandmother before taking her own life. A Florida jury is now deciding whether a man convicted in a decades-old child murder case should again be sentenced to death
Two eerie calls, One Mystery: Chilling 911 records reveal a "domestic blowout" & an attempted break-in months/days before an Ohio dentist and his wife were executed in their home.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Crime Alert, hourly update. |
| 0:06.7 | Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Jennifer Gould. |
| 0:09.2 | The high-stakes murder trial of Hollywood air Nick Reiner |
| 0:12.9 | descended into absolute chaos Wednesday |
| 0:16.0 | when his celebrity defense attorney abruptly dumped his client in open court, leaving the accused |
| 0:24.2 | double killer to face a double murder rap with a public defender. |
| 0:28.9 | The judge then addressed him in court. |
| 0:31.6 | Do you waive your right to be arraigned today so that your matter may be continued to February 23, 2026 for arraignment? |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah, I agree with that one. |
| 0:42.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.2 | Is counsel joining that one ever? |
| 0:44.4 | I do. |
| 0:44.6 | Nick, the 32-year-old son of legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer-Riner, sat in standard jail scrubs and let out an eerie, chilling, smirk. |
| 0:58.3 | As his legal powerhouse, Alan Jackson announced he had, quote-unquote, no choice but to walk away from the case. |
| 1:06.5 | The courtroom shake-up sent shockwaves through the Stanley Mosque courthouse, just as Reiner was slated to be arraigned for the grisly December 2025 slaughter of his parents. |
| 1:20.1 | Jackson, who has represented Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and who recently most famously secured an acquittal for Karen Reed held a frantic |
| 1:30.4 | closed-door meeting with the judge before emerging to announce his departure. Outside the courthouse, |
| 1:38.5 | Jackson hinted at a massive internal fracture, stating that quote-unquote, circumstances beyond Nick's control |
| 1:46.9 | made it impossible to continue, and that although he's removing himself from the case, |
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