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‘Rust’ Judge Rips Prosecutors After Alec Baldwin Case Dismissal, Cites “Fundamental Unfairness” & “Misconduct”
The judge in the 'Rust' shooting case rips prosecutors over "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct and false testimony elicited during trial."
In a ruling Wednesday, District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer noted a number of missteps in the state’s case against Rust star and producer Alec Baldwin and earlier the film’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed over the October 2021 on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding of director Joel Souza. Sommer’s 21-page ruling said dismissal was her only option because anything else “would not cure the fundamental unfairness that the State’s misconduct, and its reverberations in trial, had infused into the proceeding.” On October 21, 2021, a customized Colt .45 was handed to Baldwin inside the church set on Bonanza Creek Ranch just outside Santa Fe by Rust assistant director David Halls.
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