Nick Reiner Wants His Parents’ $1.5 Million Trust to Pay for His Defense Against Charges He Stabbed Them to Death

A man accused of killing his parents is now asking to use the trust they set up for him to fund his defense — and California law may stand in his way.

Nick Reiner wants his parents’ $1.5 million trust to pay for his defense against charges he stabbed them to death.

The trust his parents built for him the year he was born now sits behind California’s “slayer statute,” which blocks a killer from profiting off the people he’s accused of killing.

If it holds, the money goes to the brother and sister he’s charged with leaving behind.

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