The unequivocal victory by Alec Baldwin's legal team in a New Mexico courtroom on Friday has lifted the threat of criminal liability for the actor's role in the fatal shooting of the cinematographer on the set of the movie Rust.
Litigation was filed by Rust crew members and the family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was killed when an old-fashioned revolver that Mr. Baldwin was positioning for a close-up discharged a live bullet that should not have been on the set.
The lead special prosecutor called herself to the stand before the judge dismissed the case permanently, determining that the state had intentionally withheld evidence from Mr. Baldwin's defense that could have helped him.
A lawsuit that Ms. Hutchins's husband, Matthew Hutchins, filed several months after the fatal shooting in October 2021 accuses Mr. Baldwin of reckless conduct while handling the gun and the production of cost-cutting measures that endangered the crew.
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