The trial starts on July 9 with jury selection and is scheduled to last 10 days.
This aerial photo shows the movie set of Rust, where a cinematographer was shot whilst filming for an Alec Baldwin film
Ms Marlowe Sommer said: “I’m having real difficulty with the state’s position that they want to show that as a producer, he didn’t follow guidelines and therefore as an actor, Mr Baldwin did all of these things wrong that resulted in the death of Ms Hutchins because as a producer he allowed these things to happen.
Baldwin is charged with a single felony count of involuntary manslaughter punishable by up to 18 months in prison if he is convicted.Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer on set, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ death and sentenced to 18 months in prison. She is appealing the conviction.
Unaware the gun contained a live round, Baldwin said he pulled back the hammer — not the trigger — and it fired.Mr Lee died from a fatal shot to the abdomen while filming a scene from The Crow in 1993. In that instance, a makeshift bullet was mistakenly left in a gun from a previous scene and struck Lee during filming for a scene that called for blank rounds.
Rust Movie Productions paid a 100,000 dollar fine to resolve violations of state safety regulations that were characterised as “serious” but not wilful, under a 2023 settlement agreement.
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