Legal Insight on ABC News: David Glass Discusses Conservatorship and Insanity Pleas

David Glass appeared on ABC News to discuss how new details about Nick Reiner’s prior yearlong mental health conservatorship in 2020 — a period when a judge found him unable to care for his basic personal needs due to mental illness — could influence the legal strategy in Reiner’s case, particularly as he is expected to enter a Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity plea in the double-murder charges connected to the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.

David Glass on the broadcast explained that the conservatorship and Reiner’s documented history of mental health struggles may be central to arguments about his state of mind at the time of the alleged crimes, though successfully proving legal insanity under California law requires meeting a high evidentiary threshold regarding his ability to understand the nature and wrongfulness of his actions.