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Alec Baldwin Loses Bid to Dismiss ‘Rust’ Involuntary Manslaughter Charge

Alec Baldwin Baldwin argued prosecutors concealed "substantial" evidence from 'Rust' shooting grand jury, but a judge ruled there was no "bad faith"

The new ruling means the actor remains on track to begin a jury trial in July over claims he aimed a prop gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and fired the live bullet that killed her during production of the western movie Rust in 2021. Baldwin, 66, has pleaded not guilty, claiming he’s not responsible for the deadly shooting because he wasn’t in charge of safety on the movie set, had no reason to suspect his prop gun might contain a live round, and didn’t pull the trigger on his .45 caliber single action army revolver. In their closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors that Gutierrez-Reed negligently brought live ammunition onto the set and failed to identify that it was mixed in with the inert, dummy rounds that she was loading into prop weapons.

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