Update as of July 12th- The defense team is requesting a motion to dismiss before the jury enters the courtroom. The defense accuses the prosecution of not retaining critical evidence.
The judge says she will review the evidence at 11:30 a.m. The judge is looking for crime scene evidence, meaning the bullet rounds (box of evidence). The main question is how a live round got on to the movie set of Rust. The defense wants to know how critical this evidence is to the case.
Hannah Gutierrez will be called to the stand today, June 12th, and it was reported that she will take the fifth because she is appealing her case. She is serving an 18-month sentence for an involuntary manslaughter charge related to her role as the armorer on the “Rust” movie set. She is a star witness for the state’s case.
After prosecutors had first abandoned the allegation, Alec Baldwin was charged by a grand jury with involuntary manslaughter about Halyna Hutchins’ death. Baldwin has entered a not-guilty plea.
During Baldwin’s rehearsal of a cross-draw in a church on the Santa Fe set of the Western film “Rust,” a Colt.45 handgun fired a live round.
The gunfire wounded director Joel Souza and killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Though an FBI forensic analysis found the gun could not have fired without the trigger being pushed, Baldwin has regularly claimed he did not pull the trigger.
Prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson commenced her opening statements by asserting that Alec Baldwin, both a producer and the lead actor on the film “Rust,” exhibited reckless behavior on set.
During Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial on Wednesday, July 10, the courtroom was shown police body camera footage capturing Halyna Hutchins’s final moments.
The footage depicted Hutchins moving her head from side to side as paramedics attempted to stabilize her before she succumbed to her injuries that same day.
Prosecutors claimed that Baldwin’s actions were reckless and that he “violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety” during the filming. Conversely, the defense argued that Baldwin “committed no crime” in what they described as an “unspeakable tragedy” during their opening statements.
Day two of the trial centered on ammunition. Spiro’s line of questioning seemed aimed at reinforcing his argument that Baldwin was merely following instructions as an actor.
“The most critical issue here is the presence of a real bullet on the set,” Spiro told the court. “This should never be found on a movie set completely unrelated to the filmmaking process.
There will be no evidence or testimony suggesting that Alec Baldwin had any involvement in bringing that live bullet onto the set.”
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