Alec Baldwin couldn’t hold back his tears when he heard the verdict in the high-profile case
The judge withdrew the involuntary manslaughter allegation on Friday, July 12, after the actor’s defense team contended that the prosecutors had concealed evidence.
Alec Baldwin broke into tears when the judge in his Rust case withdrew the involuntary manslaughter allegation against him on Friday, July 12, after his defense attorneys claimed the prosecutors had concealed evidence.
“The late discovery of this evidence during trial has impeded the effective use of evidence in such a way that it has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings,” said Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, explaining in part why she dismissed the case with prejudice.
Before the jury entered the courtroom on Friday, the third day of the trial, Baldwin attorney Luke Nikas requested that the case against his client be dropped,
claiming that prosecutors withheld evidence that would have shed light on how live ammunition was brought onto the set of the Western film Rust in 2021.
Baldwin, who was accused by a grand jury in January, was practicing a scene on the set of the film when the revolver he was holding fired, killing cinematographer
Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza. Baldwin has stated in interviews that he did not pull the trigger on the rifle or understand why it held live bullets.
