“Enough Is Enough!” Alec Baldwin Wants ‘Rust’ Involuntary Manslaughter Indictment Tossed As Trial Looms

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Less than six months before Alec Baldwin is set to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter over the on-set 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the actor who steadfastly claims he never pulled the trigger says prosecutors “have stacked the deck” against him. “The State prosecutors have engaged in this misconduct—and publicly dragged Baldwin through the cesspool created by their improprieties—without any regard for the fact that serious criminal charges have been hanging over his head for two and a half years,” proclaims a motion to dismiss filed today in New Mexico court. “Enough is enough” Read Alec Baldwin’s motion to dismiss the Rust involuntary manslaughter charges here Recharged in January and facing up to 18 months behind bars if found guilty, the multiple Emmy winner’s criminal trial is scheduled to start in Santa Fe on July 9.

Having plead not guilty, Baldwin earlier this week saw some restrictions placed on when he could be deposed in various civil cases connected to the killing of Hutchins over two and half years ago.

Today, with the clock running down fast, his NYC-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyers and Albuquerque firm LeBlanc Law slammed Special Prosecutors Kerry Morrissey and Jason Lewis, and basically everyone ever connected to the investigation of what really happened that tragic day on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set. “This is an abuse of the system, and an abuse of an innocent person whose rights have been trampled to the extreme,” says the deep dive 52-page motion signed by attorney Luke Nikas. “If the State had conducted the grand jury process consistent with New Mexico law, the outcome should and almost certainly would have been different.