A New Mexico judge declared a mistrial and dismissed Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter charge with prejudice on Friday.
on Friday. The shock decision followed after Baldwin’s defense lawyers filed an emergency motion alleging prosecutors and investigators withheld evidence.
In her ruling, Judge Marlowe Sommar said the live ammunition, surrendered by a friend of Gutierrez-Reed’s father Thell Reed, could have helped Baldwin undermine prosecutors’ theory of the case and shore up his defense claim that the actions of others, not his own, led to the fatal shooting of Hutchins.
“This evidence is material. The late discovery of this evidence during trial has impeded the effective use of evidence in such a way that it has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings. The defense is not in a position to test the state’s theory as to the source of the live rounds that killed Ms. Hutchins,” Judge Marlowe Sommers said.
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