Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors Over Dismissed Rust Case

Alec Baldwin filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing New Mexico prosecutors and law enforcement officials of waging a “malicious prosecution” against him after the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the “Rust” film set.Their involuntary manslaughter case against Mr.Baldwin in the shooting death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, came to a dramatic end in July during his trial in Santa Fe, N.M.

The judge found that the state had withheld evidence from the defense, and dismissed the case without the potential for it to be retried.“There is no way for the court to right this wrong,” the judge, Mary Marlowe Sommer, said in dismissing the case, as Mr.Baldwin wept in the courtroom.Mr.

Baldwin’s lawsuit, filed in the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico, accuses prosecutors of violating his constitutional rights through “improper use of the criminal process.” His lawyers accused the prosecutors of a series of violations, claiming that they had failed to disclose evidence to the defense on several occasions, had pursued the case to promote their “personal agendas or professional ambitions” and had failed to pursue all lines of the inquiry as they tried to “manufacture” a case against Mr.Baldwin.“Defendants must now be held accountable for their malicious and unlawful pursuit of Baldwin,” the suit says.

“Although no verdict in this civil case can undo the trauma the state’s threat of conviction and incarceration has inflicted, Alec Baldwin has filed this action to hold defendants responsible for their appalling violations of the laws that governed their work.”In response to the lawsuit, Kari T.Morrissey, a special prosecutor who oversaw the trial, said in a statement: “In October 2023 the prosecution team became aware that Mr.

Baldwin intended to file a retaliatory civil lawsuit.We look forward to our day in court.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings....