Self-Declared “Scapegoat” Alec Baldwin Goes After New Mexico Prosecutors Over ‘Rust’ Probe & Trial

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New Mexico’s case against Alex Baldwin may finally be over as of last month, but the Rust star isn’t finished with the state over its investigation and short-lived trial over the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the indie Western. “Defendants sought at every turn to scapegoat Baldwin for the acts and omissions of others, regardless of the evidence or the law,” reads a civil rights violations lawsuit filed by Thursday the Emmy winner against prosecutors past and current, the Santa Fe D.A.

and others. “Although no verdict in this civil case can undo the trauma the State’s threat of conviction and incarceration has inflicted, Alec Baldwin has filed this action to hold Defendants responsible for their appalling violations of the laws that governed their work.” Read Alex Baldwin’s civil rights violations lawsuit against New Mexico Rust prosecutors, local district attorney and others here. Placed in the state court docket by Baldwin’s Rust defense team — Luke Nikas and Alex Spirio of NYC’s Quinn Emanuel and Albuquerque’s Heather LeBlanc — the blood-from-a-stone suit seeks a wide range of unspecified damages and a jury trial.

As the suit says, “Because Defendants’ actions were motivated by evil motive or intent and involved a reckless or callous indifference to Baldwin’s federally protected rights, an award of punitive damages is appropriate to the fullest extent permitted by law.” Now, you’d think Baldwin and his legal beagles would have been happy with New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez pushing aside special prosecutor Kerri Morrissey’s pursuit of a new trial and announcing December 23 that the state had decided not to “pursue the appeal of behalf of the prosecution,” which