'Rust' shooting prosecutor asks judge to reopen Alec Baldwin manslaughter case

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-04/rust-shooting-prosecutor-asks-judge-to-reopen-alec-baldwin-manslaughter-case

‘Rust’ shooting prosecutor asks judge to reopen Alec Baldwin manslaughter case

By Meg James
Senior Entertainment Writer
Sept. 4, 2024 5:16 PM PT

Defending the state’s handling of the “Rust” shooting case, New Mexico special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey has asked the judge to take another look at the circumstances that prompted the dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter charge.

In a court filing Friday, Morrissey asked New Mexico First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer to reconsider her decision to throw out Baldwin’s manslaughter case.

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In her 52-page motion, Morrissey argued that defense attorneys knew more about the Teske rounds than she did. She wrote the situation surrounding the rounds did not rise to a level that warranted Marlowe Sommer’s dismissal of the case with prejudice, meaning it could not be refiled.

Morrissey asserted that the tardy disclosure of the Teske rounds did not hamper Baldwin’s defense because his attorneys apparently knew about the ammunition before the trial. Morrissey also argued the rounds were unrelated to the charges that Baldwin faced.

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1. Doesn't that prosecutor know what "with prejudice" means?

Give it up. The prosecution FUBARed this case beyond redemption. Besides, I never could figure out why they thought that Baldwin had any inkling that there might be live rounds in that gun on a movie set. But that's just me.

[Voltaire2]

2. This whole thing was an unfortunate accident.

A tragedy, not a crime.

[Shermann]

3. Those aren't mutually exclusive

The Kim Potter case demonstrated that.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Who put the live bullet(s) in the gun? Do they know?

Don't burden me with whose resposibility it was.

[Clouds Passing]

5. I'm surprised Morrissey doesn't know that's double jeopardy. She seems like a nut.

Just wondering when the judge is going to set Hannah Gutierrez Reed free.

IMO it was Seth Kenney and David Halls.

[kacekwl]

6. Enough already.