Alec Baldwin Derides Prosecution In ‘Rust’ Fatal Shooting Criminal Case After Successfully Having Charges Downgraded
deadline.comAlec Baldwin and his legal team didn’t have anything to say Monday when the Santa Fa D.A. dropped a disputed charge in the fatal Rust shooting criminal case that could have seen the actor behind bars for up to five years for the death of cinematographer Haylna Hutchins.
Taking a victory lap of sorts today, Baldwin and his “big-city attorneys,” as a D.A. spokesperson termed them, now had a lot to say – with more than a few knocks on District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies and special prosecutor Andrea Reeb. “In light of the government’s concession that its decision to charge the enhancement was legally erroneous, the Motion is now moot,” said perhaps the most deferential lines in the February 20 filed notice of withdrawal from Baldwin’s NYC-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. “As set forth in the Motion, the inclusion of the enhancement thus violated the Ex Post Facto Clauses of both the United States and New Mexico Constitutions,” the motion adds (read it here).
In what was a major win for Baldwin that may determine the trajectory of the whole criminal case, yesterday it came to light that on February 17 New Mexico First Judicial D.A.
Carmack-Altwies removed the firearm enhancement to the involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Halyna Hutchins. If Baldwin or Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had been found guilty of that the enhancement they could have faced a damning verdict of a mandatory five years state prison sentence.
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