Alec Baldwin's Charges Formally Filed in Rust Shooting Case
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Alec Baldwin composite featuring, clockwise from left: a still image of the actor in costume, an image of a smiling Halyna Hutchins, and an aerial shot of the set of the movie "Rust."

Alec Baldwin stands accused of the involuntary manslaughter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (top right) on the set of “Rust” (bottom right).

One week after the official’s sudden resignation, actor Alec Baldwin’s attorneys have not dialed back their criticisms of now-former special prosecutor Andrea Reeb.

“Representative Reeb’s prosecution of this case against Mr. Baldwin to advance her political career is a further abuse of the system and yet another violation of Mr. Baldwin’s constitutional rights,” attorney Luke Nikas wrote in a scathing, 8-page letter.

In effect, the letter withdraws their pending motion to disqualify Reed, arguing that the New Mexico Constitution does not allow her to have any judicial role while in the legislative branch. Reed’s resignation makes the issue now moot, but Baldwin’s letter does not simply let bygones be bygones.

Citing The New York Times, the letter makes note of “troubling” emails exchanged between Reeb and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies.

“At some point though, I’d at least like to get out there that I am assisting you… as it might help in my campaign lol,” Reeb reportedly wrote before her election to the state’s House of Representatives.

“I am intending to either introduce you or send it in a press release when we get the investigation!” Carmack-Altwies, a Democrat, replied.

Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed both faces manslaughter charges in connection with Halyna Hutchins’s fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” on Oct. 21, 2021.

Before turning to the merits of the case, Baldwin’s legal team has scored key victories on two procedural matters. Prosecutors originally wanted to apply a firearm enhancement that could have put Baldwin and his co-defendant behind bars for five years, but the government dropped that plan after Baldwin’s legal team noted that the statute was amended after the shooting.

That “elementary legal error,” Baldwin’s lawyers said, made the enhancement invalid under the Constitution’s Ex Post Facto clause. Prosecutors retreated before the question was adjudicated.

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