Footage from a documentary about 'Rust' will not be tendered to Alec Baldwin's prosecutors for his upcoming trial.
, the beleaguered production where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot dead in 2021, will not be allowed as evidence in the prosecution ofFilmmaker Rory Kennedy, whose Last Days in Vietnam was nominated for the Best Feature-length Documentary Oscar in 2015, has been making a film about Baldwin and the shooting, which she began work on about a year after the incident.
Calling the subpoena “an impermissible fishing expedition,” Moxie filed a motion to stop the prosecutors, citing the California Shield Law, which protects journalists. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office capitulated, and an L.A. judge ordered that the subpoena be “recalled, vacated, and set aside.”
The prosecution, which withdrew a misdemeanor plea deal after learning Baldwin was participating in Kennedy’s film, has been able to obtain other footage, including on-set documentation by the production and the film itself.Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction The shooting occurred in October 2021. The prosecutors claim Baldwin allegedly acted negligently when he fired a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin’s lawyers claim he didn’t pull the trigger and that it wasn’t his responsibility to verify the weapon contained a blank.armorer, of loading a real bullet into the gun in March. The official footage, shown during Gutierrez Reed’s trial, included a clip in which Baldwin yelled, “Reload,” at her.
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