Overview
- The New York Times reported, and USA TODAY noted, that a Los Angeles Superior Court clerk confirmed Nick Reiner was placed under a mental health conservatorship in 2020 that ended in 2021.
- The arrangement was an LPS conservatorship used in California for people deemed gravely disabled and it permits involuntary psychiatric treatment as well as medical and medication decisions by a conservator.
- Licensed fiduciary Steven Baer served as conservator and said mental illness is an epidemic that is widely misunderstood.
- Reiner, 32, was arrested on Dec. 14 after Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found dead in their Los Angeles home, and he faces two counts of first-degree murder.
- He is being held in a high-observation unit at Twin Towers after an initial suicide watch, and he is now represented by the county public defender following his former lawyer’s withdrawal on Jan. 7.