“Rust” prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey desires one other shot at making an attempt Alec Baldwin … and has requested the choose to rethink the choice to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter cost in opposition to the actor.
In new court docket paperwork filed Wednesday … Morrissey went after Decide Mary Marlowe Sommer‘s grounds for dismissing the case — by which she dominated Baldwin had been prejudiced by the prosecution’s suppression of proof.
This meant Baldwin couldn’t be charged with involuntary manslaughter within the case once more … however prosecutors at the moment are asking the choose to rethink her ruling.
Within the docs, the prosecutor insists that though sure proof had been suppressed — which included reside rounds of ammunition discovered on the set — Baldwin’s protection staff was conscious of its existence previous to trial and, in any occasion, the proof was not materials to his protection in any manner.
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In line with prosecutors, “there was no cover-up because there was nothing to cover up.”
The reside ammunition in query was first turned over to the Santa Fe County, New Mexico sheriff’s workplace throughout “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed‘s trial.
Reed is now serving an 18-month jail sentence after being discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter … after the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was shot and killed by a gun held by Baldwin on set.
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As for the reside ammunition proof … it was later revealed the proof was really filed below a unique case quantity — however Baldwin’s attorneys stated they weren’t notified of this.
The prosecutor maintains “it was still Alec Baldwin’s responsibility to handle his real prop gun safely and not point the gun at anyone (let alone two people at the same time), cock the gun when the scene did not call for it and pull the trigger of the gun when the scene did not call for him to pull the trigger.”
We have reached out to Baldwin’s reps for remark … up to now, no phrase again.
