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JAN MOIR: He unleashed a mini-quake of shoulder-shaking sobs ...then clung to his wife, oblivious to the clamour erupting all around them
JAN MOIR: Judge Mary Sommer announced that the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin was dismissed because the prosecution had suppressed evidence.
Without fanfare or pomp, with a whisper not a bang, she briskly announced that the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin was dismissed because the prosecution had suppressed evidence, leaving no prospect of a fair trial. The judge ordered the contested evidence to be presented and, in a bizarre turn of events, put on a pair of blue rubber gloves and examined them herself, picking through the bullets like someone rummaging through a punnet of strawberries looking for spoiled fruit. In a B-movie subplot, Baldwin’s lawyers claimed that a man named Troy Teske – a close friend of the father of convicted armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed – took it upon himself to turn over a box of ammunition to authorities that he thought was connected to the shooting.
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