Alec Baldwin’s Function as a Producer Dominated Not Related to ‘Rust’ Trial

The actor Alec Baldwin appeared Monday in a Santa Fe courthouse as his attorneys sparred with prosecutors over what proof could possibly be proven to the jury when he goes on trial this week for the deadly capturing of a cinematographer on the set of the movie “Rust.”

Sporting a swimsuit with a grey striped tie and glasses with thick darkish frames, Mr. Baldwin, who’s going through a cost of involuntary manslaughter, appeared to pay shut consideration to the proceedings, taking notes and leaning over to talk with a lawyer.

Mr. Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury for his position within the deadly capturing of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on Oct. 21, 2021, when a gun he was rehearsing with discharged a dwell bullet. He has pleaded not responsible, saying he was instructed the gun didn’t comprise dwell ammunition. He has additionally mentioned he didn’t pull the set off earlier than the bullet fired, which prosecutors dispute.

The choose within the case, Mary Marlowe Sommer of the First Judicial District in New Mexico, dominated on Monday that prosecutors couldn’t argue that Mr. Baldwin’s position as a member of the manufacturing group — he was one of many movie’s producers along with being its main man — had made him extra culpable for the loss of life of Ms. Hutchins.

“Because the producer he has the ability to manage security on set, and there was an incredible lack of security on this set,” one of many prosecutors, Erlinda O. Johnson, argued in court docket.

Mr. Baldwin’s protection has disputed that argument, saying that as a part of the manufacturing group he was concerned in inventive issues, however that others had authority over hiring and budgets.