Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Trial Tossed Out Over “Critical” Bullet Evidence; Incarcerated Armorer Could Be Released Too
deadline.comIn a dramatic turn of events, Alec Baldwin has seen his involuntary manslaughter trial for the fatal 2022 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dismissed today by a New Mexico judge.
As well, the decision by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer on Friday at the end of an evidentiary hearing over a defense motion to dismiss and bullets dropped off to Santa Fe police in recent weeks by ex-Arizona cop Troy Teske could see incarcerated Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed released from state prison in the Land of Enchantment.
Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers plan to file a motion for her release asap, I hear. Earlier today, Erlinda Johnson, one of the special prosecutors in the case resigned because she didn’t agree with there being a public hearing on the move by Baldwin’s Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to see the matter tossed to the legal curb.
Breaking down in tears at the defense table, the multi-Emmy winning actor was in the courtroom when Judge Sommer unveiled her ruling on the defense motion to dismiss based on “concealed” evidence that Baldwin’s lawyer filed late Thursday.
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