Manslaughter: Last News

the fatal shooting on the set of his movie “Rust” in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case’s dismissal.Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew that appeal, according to a statement from the Frist Judicial District Attorney’s office.Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement that “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.”A New Mexico judge had dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in July, agreeing with the actor’s lawyers that Morrissey and the sheriff’s office concealed evidence about the source of the live round that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.The district attorney’s office said it still strongly disagreed with the judge’s decision to toss out the case against Baldwin.But the decision to drop the appeal of that decision was made after the Office of the Attorney General told Morrissey that it “did not intend to exhaustively pursue the appeal on behalf of the prosecution,” according to the statement.Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed a gun at her as they set up a camera shot on a movie set near Santa Fe. The gun fired a live round inadvertently loaded by the movie’s chief weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez.

“Fail Better” podcast on Monday and said he’s going to “expose what really happened” in the fatal “Rust” shooting. “I think there’s more to come,” Baldwin said. “There’s more to come, but the more to come is now my effort, and it’s going to be undeniably a successful effort, to raise and to expose what really happened.

Alec Baldwin firing prop guns and speaking with the crew about firearm safety — telling one person to move away from the camera because “I don’t want to shoot towards you.”The videos, obtained and published by NBC News on Wednesday, were reportedly filmed days before the actor fired a live round and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021.The previously unseen footage, about seven minutes in five clips, emerged a day before a grand jury is scheduled to consider new involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin.One of the videos reportedly shows him lying on the ground and telling someone to move to the “other side of the camera” because “I don’t want to shoot towards you.”In another video, Baldwin ​asks for a blanket to be placed next to him and he uses it as a landing pad after tossing the pistol aside.The actor also is seen in character firing a prop gun before he runs out of dummy rounds.“One more, one more, one more. Right away, right away, let’s reload,” Baldwin says, apparently in an attempt to keep the scene moving, according to the video published by NBC News.

on the “Rust” set Friday in exclusive photos obtained by The Post that also show, for the first time, Bianca Cline, the film’s new cinematographer, in action.The grey-bearded actor, 65, appeared in his Harland Rust costume, disheveled and bloodied as filming continued on the indie-Western in Montana.In one image, Baldwin stands casually, yet stoic, among his co-stars, dressed in a tattered blue shirt, suspenders, gray pants and dusty brown boots. When filming was at a standstill, he draped a red blanket over his shoulders.In other photographs, cameras appear to be rolling as Baldwin is hauled toward a noose by two men in cowboy hats, boots and gritty, trench-like jackets.