Alec Baldwin looked somber as he stepped out with two of his children in New York City on Sunday – after his lawyer, Alex Spiro, filed new legal documents to be let off the hook in the Rust manslaughter case.
The actor, 65, who has been indicted again in the involuntary manslaughter of Halyna Hutchins, 42, in October 2021, wore a maroon top, black jacket and slacks as he doted on his children.
The father of eight – who shares seven of his children with wife Hilaria, 40, carried a drink as he chatted with his son and daughter while pushing a stroller.
He is father to daughter Ireland Baldwin, 28, who he shares with ex Kim Basinger.
Baldwin parents Carmen, 10, Leo, seven, Rafael, eight, Romeo, five, Eduardo, three, Lucia, three and Ilaria, 18 months.
Alec Baldwin looked somber as he stepped out with two of his children in New York City on Sunday – after his lawyer, Alex Spiro , filed new legal documents to be let off the hook in the Rust manslaughter case
Baldwin and Spiro are arguing that the grand jury process was rigged by the Santa Fe County D.A.’s office, alleging that they added seven witnesses who were biased.
The filing reportedly claimed that three of the witnesses were on the DA’s payroll, two of them were from Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office and one was suing him in a civil case.
It is also alleged that the FBI tested the pistol used in the fatal scene that killed Halyna Hutchins, and that the DA failed to present all the evidence from the testing.
The documents also allege that the testing showed that the revolver did fire without the trigger being pulled when fully loaded, just as they were on the day of the tragedy.
During the trial of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed earlier this year, agent Bryce Ziegler said he had to break the gun with a mallet to get it to fire without using the trigger.
Ziegler, appearing for the prosecution, said that couldn’t have happened on the set of Rust because the gun was in working order when it came to him.
His analysis contradicts claims by Baldwin that he only pulled back the hammer on the vintage-looking pistol.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 26, was the armorer for Rust and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of Hutchins.
The actor, 65, who has been indicted again in the involuntary manslaughter of Halyna Hutchins, 42, in October 2021, wore a maroon top, black jacket and slacks as he doted on his children
The father of eight – who shares seven of his children with wife Hilaria, 40, carried a drink as he chatted with his son and daughter while pushing a stroller
The verdict spells trouble for Baldwin when he goes on trial in July in the same courthouse for involuntary manslaughter. If found guilty he faces 18 months in jail.
Baldwin was originally charged with involuntary manslaughter but the allegations were dropped in April last year. He was dramatically charged again last month and pleaded not guilty.
The shooting happened in October 2021 after two weeks of filming while Baldwin was practicing drawing out his gun from the holster.
He opened fire on Hutchins, 42, a married mother-of-one whose son was nine at the time, and the bullet went through her and lodged in the shoulder of director Joel Souza, who survived and testified in court.
During the trial of Gutierrez-Reed, prosecutors painted a damning portrait of a film that was in a state of ‘rushed chaos.’
The night before the incident, six members of the camera crew quit because of their concerns over safety.
Gutierrez-Reed’s defense was to blame everyone but her, but especially Baldwin.
Her lawyer, Jason Bowles, said Baldwin was the ‘big boss’ on set that nobody stood up to even though he rushed people and ignored safety checks because Rust, which he was a producer on, had a tight budget.
The jury heard that Baldwin commissioned director Souza to write the script, which he owned the rights to. Baldwin was the lead actor on the movie and was also a producer.
Bowles called Gutierrez-Reed, who was just 24 at the time of the incident, a ‘scapegoat’ for wider failings that led the New Mexico safety regulator to issue a $136,000 fine to the producers for ‘willful and serious’ safety failings.
Bowles told the court that Baldwin himself made the set unsafe by waving his gun like a ‘pointing stick’ at people.
Baldwin pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer Halyna Hutchins earlier this year
A behind the scenes video from the filming showed Baldwin demanding a second shot immediately after one that just finished.
He was heard saying: ‘Right away! Right away! Let’s reload. Here we go, come on! We should have two guns, both reloading.’
Asked if that kind of conduct was typical, Carpenter said no, adding that it put pressure on the armorer to stand up to him.
Moments later, after the director shouted cut, Baldwin let loose another blank round while standing next to the 12-year-old actor.
Carpenter said that when somebody yells cut, nothing else should be fired and that Baldwin ‘went off script.’
Baldwin could have used a Nerf gun in the scene where he accidentally shot Hutchins dead because it was just a rehearsal known as blocking, the jury heard.
But Baldwin insisted on using the real guns, known as his ‘hero props’, because he preferred them, just like he preferred the most powerful dummies possible because they were more realistic.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 26, (pictured above) was the armorer for Rust and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of Hutchins
In his opening statement, Bowles said that Baldwin ‘violated basic gun safety’ by pointing the gun at Hutchins because he didn’t intend to shoot at her.
He said: ‘The primary thing here was rush, get this thing so we can get the money and that’s all on production and Mr. Baldwin is one of the primary producers. That’s on them. Miss Gutierrez-Reed had no control over that.’
During cross-examination of Addiego, Bowles asked: ‘Did you ever stand up to Mr Baldwin and say we’re not going to move this fast?’
Addiego said it was ‘not my job’ and he didn’t recall ‘anybody standing up to Mr Baldwin on the set of Rust.’
‘He’s running the show, he’s the big boss, right?’ Bowles said. ‘He’s number one, so yes,’ Addiego said.
The criminal case is not the only court proceedings resulting from the shooting of Hutchins.
In 2022 Baldwin settled a civil lawsuit filed against him by Matthew Hutchins, the widow of Hutchins, and the father of their son.
Under the terms Rust continued production at a new location in Montana and Matthew Hutchins, who has called his wife’s death a ‘terrible accident,’ is an executive producer. No date has yet been set for the film’s release.
