Judge to rule on Alec Baldwin bid to avoid ‘Rust’ trial

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Judge to rule on Alec Baldwin bid to avoid ‘Rust’ trial
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Baldwin's lawyers have filed motions to dismiss his indictment, alleging prosecutorial misconduct, a failure to show the actor committed a crime and destruction of evidence during testing of the gun Baldwin was using during a rehearsal on the film's New Mexico...

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A New Mexico judge was expected to rule on Friday whether to throw out the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movieBaldwin’s lawyers have filed motions to dismiss his indictment, alleging prosecutorial misconduct, a failure to show the actor committed a crime and destruction of evidence during testing of the gun Baldwin was using during a rehearsal on the film’s New Mexico set.

Should Baldwin’s trial go ahead, it was set to start July 10. Legal observers said it was unlikely that case would be thrown out. Business and entertainment litigator Tre Lovell said he did not expect the actor to be convicted at trial if his attorneys followed the legal pathway laid out in their motions.

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