Alec Baldwin could again face involuntary manslaughter charges in the “Rust” case

2023-08-16 02:27:10

Alec Baldwin may again face manslaughter charges in the case Rustin which the cinematographer died Halyna Hutchins in October 2021, due to a new report claiming his gun could only have been fired if he pulled the trigger.

On April 20, Baldwin, who has maintained the version that he never pulled the trigger on the prop revolver he was holding, was acquitted of manslaughter charges against him.

The special prosecutors in the case, Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis, dismissed those charges after they were present evidence that the weapon had been modified before it was delivered to the set of Rustand the question was raised as to whether or not the weapon was working properly at the time of the shooting.

Morrissey and Lewis commissioned a new forensic examination of the gun, which had broken during FBI testing, to determine whether or not the gun was working properly at the time of the accident and to decide whether to re-charge the actor. It’s Complicated (2009).

This Tuesday the report presented by the weapons expert Lucien C. Haag was made public, who after the reconstruction of the pistol determined that despite Baldwin’s denials, “the trigger had to be pulled or pressed hard enough” for it to be fired.

“This deadly incident was the result of the manual retraction of the firing pin to its fully rearward and cocked position, followed, at some point, by the pull back or depression of the trigger,” reads the report, picked up by the US media.

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Prosecutors had stated in the past that if the gun was proven to be working properly, Baldwin would be charged again. According to the newspaper The Los Angeles Timesel fiscal Morrissey inHe said Tuesday that his office was still gathering information ahead of a possible new indictment.

On August 2, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, of the District Court of the state of New Mexico (USA), rejected the motion presented by the defense of the gunsmith from the film Hannah Gutiérrez-Reed to dismiss her involvement in the controversial case.

Gutierrez-Reed is charged with involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering.