Hilaria Baldwin was seen for the first time since prosecutors sought to reinstate her husband Alec Baldwin’s Rust manslaughter case.
The 40-year-old yoga instructor looked tense during a solo coffee run in New York City on Thursday.
Wearing a white tank top and black jogger shorts, she held a drink in one hand while pushing her hair back with the other.
Maintaining a low profile, the mother of seven navigated the city streets in dark designer sunglasses.
The outing comes after a state attorney asked a New Mexico judge to reconsider dismissing Alec’s involuntary manslaughter charge in the 2021 fatal Rust set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’, according to a court filing released Wednesday.
Hilaria Baldwin was seen for the first time since prosecutors sought to reinstate her husband Alec Baldwin ‘s Rust manslaughter case
The 40-year-old yoga instructor looked tense during a solo coffee run in New York City on Thursday
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey argued that the July decision lacked sufficient factual basis and did not infringe on Baldwin’s due process rights.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer had previously dismissed the case mid-trial, citing that police and prosecutors had withheld evidence from Baldwin’s defense in the shooting that killed Hutchins.
The dismissal was made with prejudice, preventing the charge from being refiled once any potential appeals are resolved.
Baldwin, the lead actor of Rust, was rehearsing a scene when the gun he was holding discharged, fatally striking cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.
The 30 Rock star has claimed he pulled back the hammer but did not pull the trigger before the revolver went off.
The case hinged on ammunition brought to the sheriff’s office in March by a man who claimed it might be linked to Hutchins’ death.
Prosecutors dismissed the ammo as irrelevant, while Baldwin’s legal team accused them of concealing it, leading to a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her request for reconsideration, special prosecutor Morrissey argued the undisclosed ammunition was irrelevant and focused on Baldwin’s responsibility to follow gun safety rules.
‘No one on the prosecution team … ever intentionally kept evidence from the defendant, it simply didn’t occur to the prosecution that the rounds were relevant to the case even if they were the same or similar to the live rounds found on the set of Rust,’ Morrissey wrote, per court documents.
She claimed that the defense attorneys were aware of the ammunition but chose to forgo the chance to examine it before the trial.
‘This is a smoke screen created by the defense and was intended to sway and confuse the court … and it was successful,’ Morrissey wrote.
Baldwin’s attorney, Luke Nikas, stated that a response will be submitted to the court.
The outing comes after a state attorney asked a New Mexico judge to reconsider dismissing Alec’s involuntary manslaughter charge in the 2021 fatal Rust set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins ‘, according to a court filing released Wednesday
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey argued that the July decision lacked sufficient factual basis and did not infringe on Baldwin’s due process rights; (Alec and Hilaria with their kids Carmen, 10, Rafael, eight, Leonardo, six, Romeo, five, Maria Lucia, two, Lucas, two, and Ilaria, 11 months)
In her request for reconsideration, special prosecutor Morrissey argued the undisclosed ammunition was irrelevant and focused on Baldwin’s responsibility to follow gun safety rules; (pictured Halyna Hutchins)
Rust armorer Hannah Guttierez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
In April of this year, Hannah Guttierez-Reed, the armorer on set, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’s death and sentenced to 18 months.
She is currently serving her sentence at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility and had been due to be called to the stand to testify in Baldwin’s case.
Since the 2021 shooting, the filming of Rust resumed but moved to Montana under an agreement with Hutchins’s husband, Matthew Hutchins, which made him an executive producer.
The completed movie has not yet been released for public viewing.