When the lawyer representing Nick Reiner emerged from a fifth-floor courtroom in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the journalists gathered there recognized him as one of the city’s most well-known criminal defense attorneys.
That lawyer, Alan Jackson, has represented the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, the actor Kevin Spacey and Karen Read, a woman who was acquitted this year of murdering her boyfriend in Massachusetts. Now he is representing Mr. Reiner, the suspect in the deaths of his parents, the Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
Early in his career, Mr. Jackson worked as a prosecutor in the major crimes division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He was the lead prosecutor in the murder case against the music producer Phil Spector, who was convicted in 2009.
On Tuesday, Mr. Jackson told reporters that Mr. Reiner would not appear in court, adding that his client had not been medically cleared to be transferred from the jail to the courthouse. He declined to answer questions about how he came to represent Mr. Reiner, who is in custody but has not been charged by the district attorney’s office.
Mr. Reiner, 32, was arrested late Sunday, hours after his parents were found dead inside their Brentwood home.
Matt Stevens is a Times reporter who writes about arts and culture from Los Angeles.
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