Alec Baldwin’s Trial Was “Improperly” Dismissed ByJudge, ‘Rust’ Prosecutor Claims; Wants Armorer’s Retrial Request Rejected

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The special prosecutor in Alec Baldwin’s dismissed involuntary manslaughter trial isn’t taking the case being tossed out last month over suppressed evidence quietly.

In a July 31 filing made public today, Kari Morrissey says Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer was determined to end Baldwin’s trial for the 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and flawed in her reasoning.

Rehashing a lot of both Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s cases in her response to the incarcerated Rust armorer’s request for a new trial, Morrissey herself is also determined that Gutierrez-Reed doesn’t deserve a second kick at the legal can. “Based on the Court’s off-record statement, it was apparent that the Court was intending to dismiss the case,” Morrissey says of that dramatic day in the Santa Fe Country courthouse just over two weeks ago that saw suppressed evidence being revealed and the prosecutor taking the stand herself. “Although the Court’s final order has not yet been filed, undersigned counsel contends that the Court misunderstood the testimony on July 12, 2024, and improperly dismissed the case against Mr.

Baldwin,” Morrissey writes (read the Rust special prosecutor’s July 31 filing here). Whether Morrissey is directing her ire at New Mexico judge Sommer, her former fellow special prosecutor Erlinda Johnson (who suddenly resigned mid-trial on July 12), an “unsatisfactory” paralegal she fired, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles, or Baldwin and the armorer for not taking plea deals is hard to tell – it might be all of the above.