Alec Baldwin Prosecutor Wants ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Trial Resurrected; State Looking To “Blame” Someone For Case’s Collapse, Armorer’s Lawyer Says
deadline.comThe special prosecutor in Alec Baldwin’s now-dismissed involuntary manslaughter case for the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins insists there was “no cover-up” on her part, but that the actor’s sprawling legal team and others might have been up to some legal subterfuge. “There is no basis for the defense arguments that they were cheated out of adequately preparing for trial and would have done things differently had they known about the Teske rounds — they knew about them,” Kari Morrissey says of bullets dropped off to Santa Fe police in recent months by ex-Arizona cop Troy Teske.
In a quick series of courtroom events and midnight motions in mid-July, Baldwin’s defense team led by Alex Spiro and Luke Nikas claimed they had just found out about the Teske bullets and cried foul. “This is a smoke screen created by the defense and was intended to sway and confuse the court … and it was successful,’ Morrissey conceded in an August 30 motion to reconsider dismissal filing, an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink document designed to resurrect the embarrassingly handled case.
In short, even though New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw out the case on the fourth day of Baldwin’s trial “with prejudice” (which means it can’t be filed again), Morrissey clearly wants another shot at a successful conviction of the multiple Emmy winner, by appeal or otherwise.
On the offense, Morrissey also now officially wants to know what Baldwin’s Quinn Emanuel dominated defense lawyers knew about so-called suppressed evidence, and when they knew it.
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