Rob and Michele Reiner were issued chilling warning over son Nick living at home before brutal murders

Rob and Michele Reiner were allegedly warned to allow their son to live at their home after changing his medication, potentially causing ‘erratic’ behaviour.

Nick Reiner, 32, appeared in court last week and his attorney pleaded not guilty to the murders of his parents, two months after they were found stabbed to death in their $13.5 million Brentwood home on Dec. 14.

It was previously reported that the Hollywood legend has a son. His siblings no longer pay his criminal defense costs – suffered from schizophrenia and disclosed his history of drug addiction.

Nick allegedly fired his psychiatrist and changed his medications shortly before his parents were brutally murdered.

“Medical staff warned Rob and Michele not to let Nick live at home until his medication improved,” a source said. Us Weekly.

A second source told the publication that the parents were trying to help their son understand that prescription drugs “weren’t working anymore.”

The 32-year-old appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom last week, where his lawyer pleaded not guilty to the murders of his parents, who were found brutally stabbed to death in December.

The insider said the family’s medical staff ‘warned Rob and Michele not to allow Nick to stay at their home due to his medications being changed.’ [said] This could cause him to exhibit even more erratic behavior.’

Last week, it was revealed that Nick’s siblings, who are facing murder charges for allegedly killing his parents, to which Nick has pleaded not guilty, are no longer paying his criminal defense costs.

He was arrested hours after the murders and released on bail.

But as the case progressed, once prosecutors confirmed the case was eligible for the death penalty, his legal representation was now turned over to a court-appointed public defender.

TMZ It reported that sources connected to Romy and Jake Reiner said there were no plans to hire another private criminal defense attorney.

The publication had previously reported that prominent defense lawyer Alan Jackson was retained shortly after the murders but later withdrew from the case due to an undisclosed dispute.

A public defender was appointed last month. At the time, this seemed like a temporary measure. But on Monday, Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene appeared in court and entered a not guilty plea on Nick’s behalf.

A source told TMZ about his siblings: ‘Nick’s defense is Nick’s defense. They’re not involved in this.”

Nick with his father in 2016. Now, Nick allegedly fired his psychiatrist and changed his medications shortly before his parents were murdered in their Brentwood home.

A second source told Us Weekly that Nick’s parents are trying to help their son understand that his medication “isn’t working anymore.”

Last week, it was revealed that Nick was no longer paying the criminal defense costs of his siblings, Jake and Romy, who are both left, as he faces murder charges for allegedly killing their parents, to whom he maintains he is innocent.

The 32-year-old looked gaunt as he sat slouched in a brown prison garb in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Feb. 23.

His attorney, Kimberly Green, speaks out about her client as Nick pleads not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents

The publication reported that Jake and Romy have no plans to hire private attorneys and will no longer pay for his defense.

It remains to be seen whether the brothers will weigh in on whether prosecutors should pursue the death penalty.

The 32-year-old man looked gaunt and vacant as he sat hunched over, wearing a brown prison garb, in court in Los Angeles, California, on Feb. 23.

Nick was heard whispering a soft ‘yes’ when asked if he understood the hearing during his first appearance in custody.

His head was shaved as he looked around the crowded courtroom, as if searching for someone he knew.

At one point an unidentified old woman waved at him and Nick said ‘hello’ to her and the old man sitting next to him.

This was his third appearance in court after being arrested following his parents’ gruesome murders. Judge Theresa McGonigle allowed him to be photographed in custody for the first time.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said the death penalty is still on the table for Nick.

Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death just hours before Nick was arrested and held without bail.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman says the death penalty is still on the table for Nick

$13.5 million house where Hollywood couple was found murdered

Shortly after the three-minute hearing, Hochman addressed reporters outside the Downtown LA courtroom.

‘The case continues. We have presented most of the findings to the defense attorney and are now awaiting the medical examiner’s report. This will be submitted to the District Attorney’s Office and we will ensure it is given to the defense attorney.

‘This case is suitable for the death penalty. Accordingly, we take the process by which we decide whether to seek the death penalty extremely seriously. This is a very difficult process.

‘We will examine all mitigating and aggravating circumstances and have invited defense counsel to submit to us, both in writing and in pleadings, any arguments they wish to make as to whether or not to seek the death penalty. So it’s an ongoing process.’

He will appear in court again on April 29.

Nick has long struggled with mental health issues, having previously been placed in a mental health conservatorship five years ago for allegedly murdering his family.

It is believed that his parents changed his schizophrenia medication about a month before he was found dead by his sister Romy.

Nick’s latest hearing comes just days after comedian Conan O’Brien broke his silence about Reiners’ death.

Greene arrives in Los Angeles criminal court ahead of hearing on February 23

Just hours before Rob and Michele were found, the filmmaker was seen arguing with Nick at O’Brien’s holiday party.

“This is terrible,” O’Brien, 62, said. New Yorker on Friday.

‘I knew Rob and Michele and grew closer and closer to them,’ he said, adding that he and his wife, Liza Powell O’Brien, ‘see them a lot.’

‘They were such lovely people. And having that experience of saying goodnight to someone and having them leave, only to find out the next day that they’re gone. I think I was in shock for a long time afterwards. I mean, there’s no other word for it.

“And I think about how Rob felt about what was going on in the country, how involved he was, how much of himself he put out, and it’s still hard for me to understand how suddenly that voice was silenced,” O’Brien added.

All three Reiners reportedly attended O’Brien’s holiday party on December 13, where the filmmaker and his son were involved in a “very loud argument.”

It was also recently claimed that Nick is ‘not competent to appear in court at this time’.

TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin told Fox & Friends last week: ‘We’re told he was almost childlike in prison.

‘He can’t bear the consequences of what he did. He knows what he’s doing.

Courtroom sketch shows a stoic Nick≈ dressed in brown prison garb as he appears in court on January 7

“He can’t figure out where he is right now, and I know this sounds crazy, but he’s out of his mind right now,” Levin added.

Levin said the killings were ‘incredibly brutal’. ‘We know people in medical offices who have been traumatized just by the pictures,’ he said.

The TMZ producer added that the murders bore ‘all the hallmarks of a meth murder’ and that Nick was using the hard drug at the time.

Before the trial, a legal expert predicted that Nick’s attorney might mount a public defense based on insanity.

Attorney Royal Oakes told the New York Post: “One reason to introduce the mental defense now is that waiting weakens the credibility of an argument later and people will say, ‘If his mental state is that bad, why didn’t you bring it up sooner?’ “It may cause them to ask ‘

Oakes said the legal team could then implement the potential mental health strategy because Nick has pleaded not guilty.