Prosecutors Downgrade Charge In Alec Baldwin "Rust" Case, Remove Firearm Enhancement

That it was the correct choice because of ex post facto, but it doesn't exonerate Baldwin's killing of Hutchins.

Feb 20, 2023

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In a now deleted Instagram post from Alec Baldwin a picture shows the actor on the set of Rust taken before the incident which left one person dead

Alec Baldwin still faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter for shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza, but an enhancement on one of the charges has been dropped.

The firearm enhancement carried a minimum five year prison sentence and concerned the possession of a firearm in commission of a …

Prosecutors Downgrade Charge In Alec Baldwin "Rust" Case, Remove Firearm Enhancement

That it was the correct choice because of ex post facto, but it doesn't exonerate Baldwin's killing of Hutchins.

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