A New Mexico grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin for involuntary manslaughter for the death of a cinematographer on the set of his film Rust.
Baldwin faces 18 months in prison.
“We look forward to our day in court,” stated Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro, Baldiwn’s lawyers.
This is the second time Baldwin has faced charges in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins two years ago.
Hutchins was shot on the set while preparing for a scene with Baldwin when the gun went off.
Baldwin swears he never pulled the trigger.
Prosecutors charged Baldwin in January 2023, but dropped the charges three months later when “Baldwin’s defense team raised questions about whether his Colt .45 was functioning properly when it fired.”
Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis, a new prosecution team, sent forensics the gun over the summer for more tests:
Their experts, Lucien and Michael Haag, reconstructed the gun — which had been broken during FBI testing — and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.“This fatal incident was the consequence of the hammer being manually retracted to its fully rearward and cocked position followed, at some point, by the pull or rearward depression of the trigger,” the report concluded. “Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver.”Morrissey and Lewis said in October that they intended to take the case to a grand jury within two months, stating that “additional facts” had come to light that pointed toward Baldwin’s culpability.
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