How Alec Baldwin’s Defense Set the ‘Rust’ Actor Free: ‘It Was Incredible Lawyering’
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SANTA FE, N.M. — Alec Baldwin‘s lawyers have been complaining for months that prosecutors were not sharing all the evidence against him in his manslaughter case.
They complained about missing forensics reports. They complained about redacted emails. They complained about videos buried on servers.
It got them nowhere. So when they learned, at some point before Thursday afternoon, that a retired police officer had walked into the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and dropped off a batch of bullets connected to the case — and once again, nobody told the defense — they did something weird.
They did not complain. Instead, they waited until the state got to its fourth witness on Thursday, crime scene technician Marissa Poppell.
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