In Los Angeles on Monday, Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, while their final autopsy findings remain unavailable to the public.
The oddity is not that a high-profile case is grim. It is that, months after the couple were found dead in their Brentwood home, the medical examiner's full reports are still not publicly accessible because a court order has placed what police call a 'security hold' on the files. The result is a case with a defendant in front of a judge, a public allegation of stabbing, and a crucial set of medical facts effectively frozen in place.
