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Alec Baldwin is set to stand trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 killing of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after a New Mexico judge denied the actor’s bid to dismiss the case Friday. Baldwin’s trial is scheduled for July. Judge Mary Marlowe's decision comes after she heard oral arguments from Baldwin lawyers and prosecutors in a Santa Fe court on May 17. During that hearing, special prosecutor Kari T.
Two months after that, a special prosecutor assigned in the case, Andrea Reeb, resigned. Just a month later, special prosecutors who replaced Reeb cited “new facts in the case” when they announced that they would temporarily dismiss the manslaughter charge against Baldwin. Baldwin afterward flew from New York to Montana, where he filmed the remaining scenes of the film as part of a settlement of a wrongful death claim from Hutchins’ family.
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