Alec Baldwin's Fateful Rehearsal Scene

Video of Alec Baldwin rehearsing the country successful which helium drew his weapon wrong an aged religion connected the movie acceptable astatine Bonanza Creek Ranch was played for the assemblage arsenic opening statements got underway July 10.

"So whip it out?" he's heard asking arsenic helium practices drafting the weapon from down his overgarment 3 times.

Defense lawyer Alex Spiro emphasized successful his opening connection that his lawsuit is an actor, and that adjacent if helium did propulsion the trigger of the weapon (which Baldwin has repeatedly denied doing), helium wasn't liable for Halyna Hutchins' death.

"He did not know, oregon person immoderate crushed to know," Spiro said, "that weapon was loaded with a unrecorded bullet."

911 Call Refers to Rust Assistant Director

Spiro played the 911 telephone made by a publication supervisor connected the acceptable aft Hutchins was changeable astatine 1:46 p.m. connected Oct. 21, 2021.

"This f-----g AD that yelled astatine maine astatine luncheon asking astir revisions," the caller said, "this motherf--ker... he's responsible."

First adjunct manager David Halls was sentenced to six months unsupervised probation successful March 2023 aft pleading nary contention to a misdemeanor complaint of negligent usage of a deadly weapon.

Investigators determined that Halls and accumulation armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were the past radical to grip the weapon that discharged the fatal slug earlier it was fixed to Baldwin.

Gutierrez was found blameworthy of involuntary manslaughter successful March and sentenced to a maximum 18 months successful jail, the aforesaid condemnation Baldwin is facing if convicted. 

Opening Statement Objections

The authorities raised respective objections during Spiro's opening, including aft helium said it was "part of the quality condition, portion of grief," for radical to privation to marque consciousness of a calamity and question justice.

"Justice is truth," Spiro concluded his statement. "This is an unspeakable tragedy. Alec Baldwin committed nary crime."

Footage of Halyna Hutchins Shooting Aftermath

Testimony began July 10 with prosecution witnesser Nicholas LeFleur, a Santa Fe Police Department serviceman who was moving for the sheriff's bureau astatine the clip and was archetypal connected the country astatine Bonanza Creek Ranch aft Hutchins was shot.

Over the defense's strenuous objections during pre-trial motions, footage from LeFleur's assemblage cam was played for the jury, including fraught scenes of Hutchins being attended to aft being shot. At archetypal the unit is wrong the church before she was moved into an ambulance for further treatment, arsenic LeFleur explained connected the stand, portion they waited for a chopper to get to airlift her to the hospital.

The Set Was Treated Like a Crime Scene

LeFleur testified that helium went to his conveyance to get transgression country portion to unafraid the perimeter (as seen successful the body-cam footage) but couldn't retrieve if helium was asked to oregon if it was conscionable instinctual.

"I knew we needed to commencement one," helium said.

Baldwin, seen successful the footage smoking a cigarette, was not separated from the remainder of the witnesses earlier authorities took his statement, LeFleur said, but "I did archer him to halt talking."

On cross-examination, LeFleur testified that helium did not know, erstwhile helium enactment the portion up, whether a transgression had been committed oregon an mishap had occurred.

Alec Baldwin's Behavior After the Shooting Under Scrutiny

LeFleur acknowledged nether cross-examination that, portion helium testified for the prosecution that helium told Baldwin not to talk with chap witnesses, helium did not attack oregon different re-instruct the histrion to halt talking to others. The serviceman besides said yes erstwhile Spiro asked if, much often than not, radical were going up to Baldwin to talk with him.

Moreover, Spiro contended, determination were yet galore constabulary cruisers connected acceptable and Baldwin could person been asked to beryllium successful immoderate 1 of them, abstracted from the others, but nary serviceman had him bash so. LeFleur agreed with that assessment. 

Live Rounds Found With Blanks connected Rust Set

Investigators recovered unrecorded bullets along with alleged dormant ones erstwhile they searched the Rust set pursuing the shooting, Santa Fe Sherriff's Office transgression country technician Marissa Poppell testified July 11.

There were unrecorded rounds successful the prop cart, wrong a munition container and successful weapon holsters for 2 actors, she acknowledged during Spiro's cross-examination. Image shown successful tribunal showed that the unrecorded ammo had a metallic dot astatine the bottom, portion the dummies were much aureate oregon bronze.

"Your moving theory, arsenic you evaluated the ammunition and looked astatine the similarity betwixt the Starline nickel unrecorded and the Starline nickel dummies is that they could person been easy commingled there?" Spiro asked.

She said yes. Added Spiro? "In different words, idiosyncratic could person mistaken 1 for the other, right?"

Poppell replied, "Yes."

According to her July 10 testimony, Poppell was the 1 who collected Baldwin's enarthrosis holster from the religion aft the shooting and it held 1 unrecorded circular of ammunition.

Alec Baldwin Told Wife Hilaria to Come to New Mexico After the Shooting

Hearing motions during the jury's luncheon break, First Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer allowed prosecutors to present into grounds a information of a telephone telephone Baldwin made to woman Hilaria Baldwin from the constabulary presumption aft Hutchins was shot—in which helium encouraged her to sojourn him successful New Mexico, saying they'd "have fun."

Baldwin didn't cognize Hutchins had died erstwhile helium made the call, but knew she was earnestly injured, peculiar authoritative Kari Morrissey asserted successful court.

"If the defence hasn't spent each of this clip saying how...panicked and upset helium was," Morrissey said, "I'm not definite that it would beryllium relevant, but helium is really readying fundamentally a vacation."

The justice told Baldwin's lawyers, who objected connected respective points, "I bash find that it's applicable to fundamentally respond to you each talking astir however upset Mr Baldwin was, and surely you considered that information of consequence."

Crime Scene Tech Denies Burying Evidence

Under Spiro's cross, Poppell denied withholding grounds by not adding a container of bullets she was fixed by a "good Samaritan" after Gutierrez's proceedings to the wide Rust-related evidence, oregon by not showing it to the defense. She said she ne'er gave immoderate grounds to the defense.

Morrissey identified the idiosyncratic who gave Poppell the munitions arsenic a person of Gutierrez's father, seasoned Hollywood armorer Thell Reed. The authoritative insinutated the antheral was looking to implicate Seth Kenney, the Rust limb supplier, successful bringing unrecorded rounds to the set.

Poppell said during redirect that she had nary grounds that Kenney had brought the unrecorded rounds to set, but she did person grounds that Gutierrez did.

Gutierrez's lawyer Jason Bowles told NBC News it was "beyond shocking" that the bullets successful question weren't tested to spot if they were the aforesaid benignant arsenic others recovered connected the Rust set.

"They were hiding the shot until called retired connected it successful trial," Bowles said. "If you privation to get to the truth, you tally down each leads."

The Jury Is Unexpectedly Excused for the Day After Defense Files Expedited Motion to Dismiss

The assemblage had lone been seated for a little clip connected the greeting of July 12 erstwhile Judge Sommer sent them location for the time successful the aftermath of the defense's question accusing the authorities of burying evidence.

Poppell testified to receiving a container of ammunition from erstwhile Arizona constabulary serviceman Troy Teske—a person of Gutierrez's begetter antecedently identified arsenic a "good Samaritan" but since identified successful court—after Gutierrez was convicted of involuntary manslaughter successful March for her relation successful Hutchins' death.

Spiro antecedently questioned Poppell astir wherefore did she didn't enactment the container with the remainder of the Rust case evidence.

This morning, earlier the assemblage was brought in, Poppell again denied intentionally hiding anything, telling Spiro she was instructed to record the container nether different lawsuit number, truthful she did.

The defense's question alleges the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office and the authorities "concealed from Baldwin that determination was grounds that the unrecorded circular came from Seth Kenney."

After a luncheon break, the prosecution called PDQ Props proprietor Kenney, who was hired to supply the Rust accumulation with prop firearms and dummy rounds, to attest without the assemblage contiguous arsenic portion of a proceeding connected the defense's motion.

Kenney testified that, having supplied much than a 1000 productions with dummy rounds, "there was ne'er a question" successful his caput arsenic to whether helium could person brought the unrecorded rounds to set.

Morrissey called the defense's effort to blasted Kenney "a chaotic goose chase."

Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey Takes the Stand

Morrissey willingly agreed to instrumentality the witnesser basal to explicate her role—or deficiency thereof, arsenic she attested—in the container of ammunition delivered by Teske not being included successful the Rust case evidence.

She testified that Gutierrez's lawyer Jason Bowles was alert that Teske wanted to springiness him the ammunition successful question and that, erstwhile Bowles showed her a photograph of the rounds successful question, to her they looked "dissimilar" to the unrecorded rounds recovered connected the Rust set.

Morrissey said Bowles informed Teske helium wouldn't beryllium calling him arsenic a witness. She besides said that, erstwhile Teske brought the rounds to the Santa Fe County Sherrif's Office, then-Det. (now Cpl.) Alexandra Hancock told her they'd beryllium enactment into evidence.

Morrissey testified she had "no idea" it wouldn't beryllium filed nether the Rust case number.

The rounds Teske handed implicit "would not person wounded the state's case," Morrissey said. "It would person been the champion grounds I could person hoped for."

Case Dismissed!

Judge Sommer dismissed the lawsuit against Baldwin with prejudice, meaning the complaint cannot beryllium refiled.

Agreeing with the defence that the authorities did not disclose perchance consequential evidence, the justice said, "The authorisation of dismissal is the lone warranted remedy."

Baldwin teared up instantly arsenic it became wide however Sommer was astir to rule, arsenic did Hilaria. She attended each time of the trial, along with her brother-in-law Stephen Baldwin.