Alec Baldwin Racks Up ‘Rust’ Trial Win; Defendant’s Co-Producer Role Now Not Part Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case
deadline.comOn the eve of Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial for the 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the multiple Emmy winner just scored a big legal win.
Over arguments from prosecutors, a New Mexico judge has determined Monday that Baldwin’s role as a co-producer on the troubled indie Western cannot be entered as evidence into the July 9 starting trial.
Baldwin was in court at the defense table when the ruling was announced, as he has been all day. “I’m having real difficulty with the state’s position that they want to show that as a producer he didn’t follow guidelines and therefore as an actor Mr.
Baldwin did all of these things wrong that resulted in the death of Ms. Hutchins because as a producer he allowed these things to happen,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer declared today in a pre-trial motions hearing going on right now in Santa Fe.
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