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Alec Baldwin Loses Bid to Exclude Potentially Damaging Calls to Wife, Assistant

Jurors can hear Alec Baldwin on a call, urging his wife Hilaria to join him for a "good time" in New Mexico after 'Rust' shooting, trial judge rules.

Alec Baldwin failed on Thursday to prevent jurors on his involuntary manslaughter trial from hearing a possibly damaging private phone conversation he had with his wife Hilaria just hours after the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the western movie Rust on Oct. 21, 2021. New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ultimately sided with prosecutors, saying Baldwin’s defense opened the door to his state of mind after the shooting by portraying him as distraught during cross-examination of a Santa Fe Police Department officer who was the first witness to testify in the trial on Wednesday. The actor claims he didn’t pull the trigger on the replica revolver that fired the deadly shot and was deprived of the opportunity to check the weapon for damage or modification because the FBI broke it during testing.

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