The high-stakes case, which saw the actor charged in the death of Halyna Hutchins, fell apart in a matter of hours
Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, hug during his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins.Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, hug during his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins.. How it happened – and what comes nextset out to make the western Rust in 2021, it was a passion project for the veteran actor.
It was a shocking end to a high-stakes case that has been closely watched by the film industry and documented by dozens of journalists from outlets around the world. A jury was seated on Tuesday and proceedings kicked off on Wednesday. As things got under way inside the courtroom, the prosecution and defense offered very different versions of the events that unfolded on 21 October 2021.
In the view of the prosecution, Baldwin was a reckless and arrogant actor who flagrantly and repeatedly mishandled firearms on set. He broke the “cardinal rules of firearm safety” by leaving his finger on the hammer and trigger, and pointing it at people on set while filming.Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, center, questions special prosecutor Kari Morrissey, second from left, about evidence not turned over to defence attorney Alec Spiro, second from right, in the trial against Alec Baldwin.
Morrissey had said that the ammunition brought forward did not match the ones on the Rust set: “This has no evidentiary value whatsoever.” Morrissey said several times that Troy Teske, the man who came forward with the ammunition, was a friend of Gutierrez-Reed’s father. She said she had never seen the report until Friday morning. But as the judge questioned Hancock, she said that Morrissey was directly involved in the decision to keep the evidence separate from the Rust case. The audience in the courtroom audibly gasped.
The state’s conduct amounted to a “constitutional violation”,Rahmani said. He called it “the cardinal sin for a prosecutor”.
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