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‘Rust’ Armorer Doesn’t Have To Testify At Alec Baldwin’s Involuntary Manslaughter Trial, Judge Rules; Actor Fails Again To Get Case Dismissed
Two weeks before the 30 Rock actor goes on trial for the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins, there is a lot still in flux in the proceedings
In a sometimes-heated virtual hearing this morning on yet another failed move by the defense to get the case dismissed, New Mexico state Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected the prosecution motion to have the Rust armorer be a witness with immunity in the July 9 starting trial. After a brief break this morning, the hearing resumed with defense lawyer John Bash unsuccessfully pitching that the January 2024 indictment against Baldwin should be tossed out for failure to state a criminal offense. “We have an extraordinary amount of circumstantial evidence that goes directly to this point,” Morrissey went on to say, noting Baldwin was aware that other actors on Rust fired their guns into the ground to make sure that they were safe after other so-called “accidental discharges” occurred during production in October 2021.
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