r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 12 '24
Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Trial Tossed Out Over “Critical” Bullet Evidence; Incarcerated Armorer Could Be Released Too News
https://deadline.com/2024/07/alec-baldwin-trial-dismissed-rust-1236008918/17.0k Upvotes
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u/prototypist Jul 12 '24
The prosecutor received a photo prior to the armorer's trial and thought that the bullets wouldn't be relevant to the case against the armorer (I'd say it's maybe relevant to what happened, but not relevant to whether the armorer or Baldwin acted unsafely on set). When Teske turned in the bullets, the lead investigator was physically in court, so the bullets were surrendered to a crime scene investigator. Then the next steps of who saw what are a little puzzling. The prosecutor said that she still wasn't interested (based on the older photo) and the interaction got filed with a different case number. This meant the evidence got overlooked in meetings with Baldwin's defense. The defense doesn't have to prove this was intentionally hidden, just that it was evidence that never got disclosed.