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Alec Baldwin Hearing Turns Into Verbal Brawl Between ‘Rust’ Prosecutor & Defense Lawyer; Judge Sets Ruling On Dismissing Involuntary Manslaughter Charges For Next Week

With less than 2 months to go before his criminal trial, the multi-Emmy winner wont' know until next week if he is going to have to face a jury or not.

With some rarefied statute and legal precedent in play, as well as shout outs to New York Times quotes and Grand Jury leaks, the defense put up a deeply referenced argument today and certainly piqued the interest of Judge Sommer on several nuances. Pivoting to the Gutierrez-Reed case, Spiro’s colleague Luke Nikas told the hearing that Baldwin had no official responsibility to check the gun he had been handed on the troubled Rust set that horrible day. Recharged with involuntary manslaughter in late January and having entered a not guilty plea not long afterward, Baldwin has always insisted that he never actually pulled the trigger on the Colt .45 that killed Hutchins and wounded Rust director Joel Souza with live rounds.

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