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CASE DISMISSED. US actor Alec Baldwin hugs a member of his legal team at the conclusion of his trial on involuntary manslaughter at Santa Fe County District Court in New Mexico on July 12, 2024. Baldwin’s trial for involuntary manslaughter was dismissed by a judge after she ruled that key evidence over a fatal shooting on the set of ‘Rust’ had been withheld from the defense.
“The state’s willful withholding of this information was intentional and deliberate. If this conduct does not rise to the level of bad faith, it certainly comes so near to bad faith as to show signs of scorching prejudice,” said Marlowe Sommer.Baldwin was holding a gun in the direction of Hutchins during a rehearsal in October 2021 when the weapon fired, killing Hutchins and wounding the film’s director.
Baldwin’s celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro argued the actor had no responsibility for checking the weapon’s deadly contents and did not know it contained live rounds.And Spiro on Thursday introduced evidence that live bullets potentially linked to the shooting had been handed to police, but not disclosed to Baldwin’s lawyers.
Spiro accused police of having “buried” evidence by not filing it under the “Rust” case, depriving the defense of a chance to see it.Crime scene technician Marissa Poppell, under questioning from Spiro, said she had catalogued the bullets, but had been told not to file them under the “Rust” case.
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