The special prosecutor for Alec Baldwin’s fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins should be tossed out and the troubled indie Western’s incarcerated armorer should be either set free or given a new trial, a New Mexico judge heard today.
Why? “Lying, cheating, hiding evidence,” according to Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles.
“I’m asking that this Court, in its inherent power, remove her from further prosecution of the Rust case, and we are asking for a dismissal on the same basis as this Court dismissed Mr. Baldwin’s case ,” the defense attorney declared in a virtual hearing Thursday morning of special prosecutor Kari Morrissey.
After a mere four days, Baldwin’s trial was suddenly tossed out on July 12 after dramatic revelations that prosecutors deliberately had been hiding ammunition evidence from the actor’s defense team. “She has testified before this court, and I submit, and I don’t do it lightly, her testimony was false, and … she didn’t exercise reasonable diligence,” Bowles told Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer of the Baldwin case and Morrissey’s conduct.