The judge in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial dismissed the case after agreeing with the actor's lawyers that prosecutors hid evidence that may have been linked to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie “Rust” in 2021.
A special prosecutor who resigned from the manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on Friday said she did so because she felt it should have been voluntarily dismissed by the state. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer would dismiss the case against Baldwin later that day, and she dismissed it “with prejudice,” meaning charges can’t be refiled against the actor.
45-caliber rounds to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office on March 6 . Defense attorneys said they should have been told about the rounds. Morrissey argued that the disputed ammunition was not linked to the case or hidden from Baldwin’s lawyers. “There is no reason to believe that the evidence that we discussed in court today was related to the set of ‘Rust,’” Morrissey said after the case was dismissed. She said she disagreed with the judge’s decision but respected it.
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