Expert: Nick Reiner's courtroom smirk showed 'duper's delight'

Body language expert Susan Constantine described a brief, eerie smirk by Nick Reiner during his arraignment, calling it a form of "duper's delight." She said his head tilted down as the smile leaked out — an unconscious sign of enjoyment that he then tried to conceal, and that he quickly changed his behavior once he became aware of it.

Constantine pointed to a pulsating jawline and forehead lines as signs of tension, and added that his eyes displayed high levels of paranoia and fear. Reiner pleaded not guilty at a downtown Los Angeles court, appeared in a brown jumpsuit with his hands shackled, and sat beside public defender Kimberly Greene.

He waived his right to a speedy preliminary hearing and is due back in court on April 29; he had been seen in a suicide-prevention smock at an earlier appearance. He faces two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders after his parents, Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Dec.

United States, Los Angeles

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