Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Case Finally Over As Appeal Withdrawn By Prosecutor – Update

deadline.com:

UPDATED with appeal withdrawn: More than three years after Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a bullet from Alec Baldwin‘s gun on the New Mexico set of the indie Western, the involuntary manslaughter criminal case against the actor has been put to rest.

A month after Special Prosecutor Karri Morrissey tried to revive the matter, which had been dismissed just a few days into the trial this summer over suppressed evidence, the office of New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez decided Monday not to “pursue the appeal of behalf of the prosecution.” Not long afterwards, Morrissey dropped her efforts to overturn Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer’s tossing of the case, Deadline has confirmed. “Today’s decision to dismiss the appeal is the final vindication of what Alec Baldwin and his attorneys have said from the beginning—this was an unspeakable tragedy but Alec Baldwin committed no crime,” said Baldwin’s lead lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro on Monday. “The rule of law remains intact in New Mexico.” Not that this means that Baldwin is fully out of the legal woods.

Multiple civil suits related to the shooting remain in the courts in California and New Mexico. On the other hand, as Baldwin’s most recent SNL appearance Saturday makes clear, the Emmy winner is right back on the B-list where he was before the shooting.

To that, Baldwin has a reality show with his wife and seven young children coming next year. UPDATE, November 27: The Rust special prosecutor may have hopes of reviving the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin, but the Emmy-winning actor’s lawyers don’t seem to be pausing their Thanksgiving preparations over this latest move by Kari Morrissey. “We sincerely doubt Attorney General Torrez will