More than two years after the fatal shooting on the set of the western film, Rust, actor Alec Baldwin is once again charged with involuntary manslaughter this Friday, January 19, 2024. The actor risks eighteen months in prison.
Remember, in October 2021 in New Mexico a terrible tragedy affected the filming of the film Rust, a western in which actor Alec Baldwin plays. Indeed, while the actor is in the middle of rehearsing a scene involving a firearm supposed to be loaded with blanks, a shot goes off and kills the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza was also seriously injured in the incident. A particularly shocking news item which had the effect of a bombshell regarding the use of firearms in the cinematographic environment.
While the film’s producers have already been ordered to pay the highest possible fine of $136,793 for safety violations, they have also been fined for willful misconduct. If the gunsmith working on the film had admitted to not having checked the weapon before giving it to the actor, Alec Baldwin for his part considered himself safe from any charges after the charges were dropped last April. However, this Friday, January 19, 2024, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation announced that actor Alec Baldwin was again charged with manslaughter.
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The actor asks that his trial take place “within short delay”
According to information collected by BFMTV, the 65-year-old actor would have requested this Wednesday, January 24, 2024 that his trial to take place before a court in New Mexico takes place “under short notice“. While the actor has maintained his innocence since the beginning of this whole affair, claiming to have used the weapon thinking it was harmless and loaded with blanks, his lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro explained that they wanted this case to be resolved as quickly as possible. judged for “to alleviate public slander and suspicion and to avoid the dangers in proving one’s innocence which often emanate from a long delay in prosecution“. The court would therefore have asked the actor to appear physically or virtually before the court before February 1, 2024.
The film’s chief gunsmith, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, is also charged with involuntary manslaughter after police concluded that she was the one who put the live ammunition into Alec Baldwin’s gun when only the Blank bullets are allowed on a shoot. The actor faces up to 18 months in prison if found guilty.
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