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‘Rust’ Trial: What Does Armorer’s Guilty Verdict Mean for Alec Baldwin?
The Santa Fe D.A.'s office has made clear throughout the high-profile 'Rust' trial that it is focused on convicting Alec Baldwin.
had initially planned to prosecute the case herself, but stepped aside last year amid controversy, handing the job to two private attorneys, Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis. At the same time, Baldwin’s lawyers can point to the conviction as proof that Gutierrez Reed — not her managers, not the producers — was singularly to blame for bringing a live bullet to set and loading it into his gun. The prosecutors spent considerable court time rebutting Baldwin’s claim that he did not pull the trigger, demonstrating that his gun must have been in working order when it fired — even though Gutierrez Reed’s defense did not dispute that.
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