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Nick Reiner, the son of director Rob Reiner who was booked on a murder charge related to his parents' deaths, didn’t make a scheduled 8:30 a.m. PT court appearance Tuesday because he wasn’t medically cleared to do so, his defense attorney Alan Jackson told reporters outside Los Angeles Superior Court this morning.