In the Rust firing case, armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed was sentenced last month to 18 months in prison for mistakenly loading a live bullet into the gun.
In another update on the Rust firing case, Alec Baldwin’s lawyers have filed two more motions to throw out his manslaughter indictment. The actor faces a trial in July on a charge of negligently causing the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. It so happened when the actor and others on the set were getting ready to film Rust in October 2021 when his Colt .45 fired and killed Halyna Hutchins.
In the same case, armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed was sentenced last month to 18 months in prison for mistakenly loading a live bullet into the gun.
In their latest motions, the actor’s lawyers argue that the charge is not legally justified and that he has been deprived of a fair trial because the FBI broke the gun in the case during testing.
Alec Baldwin maintains that he did not pull the trigger and argues that the government’s actions did not let them show that the gun was not working properly at the time of the shooting. The lawyers told the court, “The government may not knowingly deprive the defense of potentially useful evidence by destroying it.”
Their lawyers argued that his actions did not meet the standard for involuntary manslaughter under New Mexico law.
Meanwhile, Rory Kennedy is making a documentary about Alec Baldwin and the Rust shooting. She is fighting a subpoena that would force her to turn over interview footage to the prosecutors in the case. Her company Moxie Films has been working on a documentary about the case for more than a year.
Her lawyers have argued that the subpoena amounts to a “fishing expedition,” and that it would be burdensome to comply. They also argued that the subpoena violates the California Shield Law, which protects journalists from being turned into “an investigative arm of the government.”
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