Actor Alec Baldwin’s legal team is asking a New Mexico judge to dismiss the indictment against him related to the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set, saying prosecutors acted unethically and failed to present crucial evidence to the grand jury.
The attorneys argued that the state has violated “nearly every rule in the book” in an effort to convict Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie set.
“Enough is enough,” the lawyers wrote. “This is an abuse of the system, and an abuse of an innocent person whose rights have been trampled to the extreme,” they wrote in a court filing.
Baldwin is accused of criminal negligence. He fired a prop gun on the set of the Western film, killing Hutchins. Baldwin said he was unaware that the gun was loaded with a live bullet.
Baldwin is set to face trial on July 9.
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