Actor Alec Baldwin shall be arraigned on Thursday in New Mexico after he was charged once more with involuntary manslaughter within the deadly 2021 taking pictures of a cinematographer on the set of the movie Rust, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for New Mexico’s court docket system mentioned in an e mail that Baldwin’s arraignment within the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe can be a digital continuing.
Baldwin’s legal professionals didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Earlier this month when the brand new fees had been introduced, Baldwin’s legal professionals Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro issued an announcement saying: “We look forward to our day in court.”
The Oct. 21, 2021, taking pictures on the set of Rust killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The reinstated legal case in opposition to Baldwin comes months after earlier fees had been dropped.
The new fees got here in an indictment by a New Mexico grand jury after an impartial forensic check, concluding that Baldwin would have needed to have pulled the set off of a revolver he was utilizing in a rehearsal for it to fireside the dwell spherical that struck Hutchins within the chest and killed her.
The discovering was the identical as a earlier FBI check on the firearm.
When prosecutors introduced their intention in October to deliver the case to a grand jury, the defence legal professionals known as the scenario a “terrible tragedy” that “has been turned into this misguided prosecution.”
Baldwin, the Emmy-winning performer who starred within the hit NBC tv comedy 30 Rock, has denied pulling the set off and mentioned he was not accountable for Hutchins’ loss of life.
The film’s director, Joel Souza, was struck and wounded within the shoulder by the identical bullet that killed Hutchins throughout manufacturing of the movie on a set exterior Santa Fe.
According to a police report, David Halls, the assistant director who handed the gun to Baldwin, informed the actor the weapon was “cold,” an business time period that means it didn’t include dwell ammunition and even clean rounds. Halls informed police he was unaware the gun was loaded.
Last yr as a part of a plea settlement Halls was sentenced to a six-month suspended sentence with unsupervised probation, a $500 wonderful, 24 hours of group service and a firearms security class on a cost of negligent use of a lethal weapon.
The film’s chief weapons handler, Hannah Gutierrez, who dealt with the gun earlier than Halls, has additionally been charged with involuntary manslaughter. She faces trial this yr.
Prosecutors beforehand dismissed fees in opposition to Baldwin primarily based on proof the hammer of the revolver may need been modified, permitting it to fireside with out the set off being pulled.