Nearly three years after the customized Colt .45 in Alec Baldwin’s hand fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the indie Western Rust, the actor’s involuntary manslaughter trial is set to begin.
With jury selection starting Tuesday, Baldwin’s trial follows the successful prosecution of Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed earlier this year.
Found guilty of an involuntary manslaughter charge and not guilty of tampering with evidence in March by a Santa Fe County jury, the 27-year-old daughter of legendary movie gunman Thell Reed — a relatively inexperienced armorer and also working in the props department on the low-budget Rust — was sentenced April 15 to 18 months in a New Mexico state prison.
Having entered a not guilty plea shortly after he was recharged this past January, Baldwin will be in Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer’s courtroom every day of the trial beginning today with jury selection.
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