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How Alec Baldwin’s Defense Set the ‘Rust’ Actor Free: ‘It Was Incredible Lawyering’
Alec Baldwin's lawyers complained for months about the failure to turn over evidence in the 'Rust' trial. With clever lawyering, the case collapsed.
Kari Morrissey, the lead prosecutor, initially downplayed the revelation, saying on Thursday that law enforcement could easily show that the bullets in question did not match the ones found at the “Rust” scene, and were therefore irrelevant. She also never spoke one-on-one with Troy Teske, the man who stored them for years, waiting for law enforcement to come get them, before finally dropping off the bullets to the Sheriff’s Office at the conclusion of the Gutierrez Reed trial in March. After a series of prosecutorial blunders that preceded her tenure, she was able to put things on track enough to convict Gutierrez Reed, who is now serving an 18-month sentence in state prison.
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