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TMZ Special Claims Nick Reiner Is Not Competent to Stand Trial, 'Childlike' in Jail

He remains held without bail on double‑murder charges with special‑circumstance enhancements.

Overview

  • TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin told Fox & Friends that Reiner cannot currently understand court proceedings and appears almost childlike in custody.
  • The Fox Nation program reports Reiner has schizoaffective disorder and that his medication was changed about a month before the Dec. 14 killings.
  • Levin alleged the stabbings bore the markings of a meth murder and said Reiner had been using meth, while noting he lacks confirmation.
  • Reiner was arrested on Dec. 14 and charged with two counts of first‑degree murder, with multiple‑murder and knife enhancements that could bring life without parole or the death penalty if he is convicted.
  • He is jailed without bond at Twin Towers in Los Angeles; after attorney Alan Jackson withdrew, public defender Kimberly Green took over and the arraignment was pushed to February.