Judge declines to reconsider criminal charges against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting

A New Mexico justice has upheld her determination to disregard an involuntary manslaughter complaint against Alec Baldwin successful the fatal shooting of a cinematographer connected the acceptable of a Western movie.

In a ruling Thursday, authorities District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stood by her July determination to disregard an involuntary manslaughter complaint against Baldwin. She said prosecutors did not rise immoderate factual oregon ineligible arguments that would warrant reversing her decision.

“Because the state’s amended question raises arguments antecedently made, and arguments that the authorities elected not to rise earlier, the tribunal does not find the amended question good taken,” the justice wrote, adding that the petition was besides untimely.

A spokesperson for Baldwin’s lawyers said Friday that they had nary contiguous absorption to the decision.

Special authoritative Kari Morrissey told The Associated Press that she disagrees with the court’s investigation and volition entreaty the ruling. Morrissey was appointed by the Santa Fe territory lawyer to instrumentality implicit the lawsuit successful March 2023 aft a erstwhile peculiar authoritative resigned pursuing missteps successful the filing of archetypal charges.

The lawsuit was thrown retired halfway done proceedings connected allegations that constabulary and prosecutors withheld grounds from the defence successful the 2021 decease of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins connected the acceptable of the movie Rust.

Baldwin’s proceedings was upended by revelations that ammunition was brought into the Santa Fe County sheriff’s bureau successful March by a antheral who said it could beryllium related to Hutchins’ killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammo unrelated and unimportant, portion Baldwin’s lawyers accidental investigators “buried” the grounds successful a abstracted lawsuit record and filed a palmy question to dismiss.

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Baldwin, the pb histrion and co-producer for Rust, was pointing a weapon astatine Hutchins during a rehearsal connected a movie acceptable extracurricular Santa Fe successful October 2021 erstwhile the revolver went off, sidesplitting Hutchins and wounding manager Joel Souza. Baldwin has said helium pulled backmost the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.

A justice successful April sentenced movie weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to the maximum of 1.5 years astatine a authorities penitentiary connected an involuntary manslaughter condemnation successful Hutchins’ death.

Marlowe Sommer past period rejected Gutierrez-Reed’s petition to disregard her condemnation oregon convene a caller proceedings connected allegations that prosecutors failed to stock grounds that mightiness person been exculpatory. She recovered that the armorer’s attorneys didn’t found that determination was a tenable anticipation that the result of the proceedings would person been antithetic had the grounds been disposable to Gutierrez-Reed, who inactive has an entreaty pending with a higher court.

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Associated Press newsman Susan Montoya Bryan successful Albuquerque contributed to this report.

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