:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/R4G4QH5KPVHF3A54DXDOPS3S7I.jpg "Special Prosecutors to Seek Criminal Charges Against Alec Baldwin in “Rust” Case")
Special prosecutors in the “Rust” case will ask a grand jury to consider whether actor Alec Baldwin should be criminally charged again for the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, public officials announced in a statement Tuesday.
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“After an extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe demonstrate that Mr. Baldwin is criminally culpable,” prosecutors Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis said of the incident that occurred on September 20. October 2021 in Santa Fe (New Mexico) during the filming of the film “Rust”.
The case, which is still being heard in a court in the First Judicial District of New Mexico, focuses on finding out how a real bullet appeared in the barrel of the prop gun that Baldwin was wielding during a rehearsal and ended up fatally hitting Hutchins.
“We believe the appropriate course of action is to allow a panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether Mr. Baldwin should be detained for criminal trial,” added prosecutors, who hope to present the case to a large audience. jury in the next two months.
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On April 20, Baldwin, who has maintained the version that he never pressed the trigger of the prop revolver he was holding but that it detonated due to a mechanical failure, was acquitted of the charges of involuntary manslaughter against him.
For her part, the gunsmith and person in charge of the security protocol during the recordings, Hannah Gutiérrez-Reed, remains accused of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence.
Earlier this month, a New Mexico judge ordered the film’s producers to turn over documents to prosecutors that could potentially show that Baldwin, the film’s star and producer, would reap greater profits if he delivered the project on time and below budget.
A hypothesis confronted by the legal defense of the company Rust Movie Productions, which responded by suggesting that the State’s efforts to obtain these files were a covert way of gathering information to file new criminal charges against the actor due to his high profile.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer of the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico ruled that the producers of “Rust” must deliver the documents requested by Morrissey by October 20, the eve of the second anniversary of the tragedy. (Source: EFE)
