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Alec Baldwin’s Lawyer Says Actor ‘Will Fight’ Involuntary Manslaughter Charge for ‘Rust’ Shooting

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After Alec Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins, his lawyer said that the actor plans to fight the case.“This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice,” Luke Nikas said in a statement on Thursday, January 19. “Mr.

Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun — or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds.

We will fight these charges, and we will win.”New Mexico prosecutors announced earlier on Thursday that the Emmy winner, 64, and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will both be charged with involuntary manslaughter for the October 2021 death of Hutchins, who was 42. David Halls, the film’s first assistant director, agreed to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon.“If any one of these three people — Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls — had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today,” special prosecutor Andrea Reeb said in a statement announcing the charges. “It’s that simple.

The evidence clearly shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the Rust film set. In New Mexico, there is no room for film sets that don’t take our state’s commitment to gun safety and public safety seriously.”Baldwin was holding the gun that killed Hutchins and wounded Rust director Joel Souza on October 21, 2021, but he has repeatedly said he was not responsible for the cinematographer’s death.“The trigger wasn’t pulled.

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