Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial was shockingly dismissed by the judge on Friday.

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The judge in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial dismissed the case Friday. The judge agreed with the actor’s lawyers that prosecutors hid evidence that may have been linked to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie “Rust” in 2021. “There is no way for the court to right […] The post Alec Baldwin’s Manslaughter Case Was Dismissed appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Santa Fe Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin on Friday after ruling the prosecutors hid evidence from Baldwin’s defense team. The ruling came on the third day of the trial in New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court after Baldwin attorney Luke Nikas accused prosecutors of deliberately withholding bullets that were turned over to investigators earlier this year. Sommer said that the state was “highly culpable for its failure to provide discovery to the defendant” and that dismissal with prejudice was warranted. “The late discovery of this evidence has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings,” she said. “There is no way for the court to right this wrong. The sanction of dismissal is the only warranted remedy.” Baldwin had faced up to 18 months in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a firearm that he was rehearsing with in 2021 on a film set fired a live round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Sommer put on blue latex gloves, cut open a manilla envelope that contained the bullets, and looked at the previously unexamined evidence. BREAKING: Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the ‘Rust’ moving shooting case with prejudice against #AlecBaldwin. When Baldwin heard her ruling, he started to sob and later hugged his family. Baldwin was facing an involuntary manslaughter charge. pic.twitter.com/v9gfv2xd92 — Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) July 12, 2024 Nikas claimed that prosecutors intentionally “buried” the evidence by putting it “under a different case with a different number.” This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

Former President Donald Trump moved to have his New York felony conviction dismissed Thursday in light of the Supreme Court’s decision that presidents have immunity for official actions.  Lawyers for Trump argued in a motion that New York Judge Juan Merchan should dismiss Trump’s conviction in the hush money case where he was accused of falsifying business records because the prosecution relied on evidence that shouldn’t have been admissible for the jury to consider. The motion comes after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Trump’s assertion of presidential immunity to shield himself from federal prosecution is valid for official acts.  “No President of the United States has ever been treated as unfairly and unlawfully as District Attorney Bragg has acted towards President Trump in connection with the biased investigation, extraordinarily delayed charging decision, and baseless prosecution that give rise to this motion,” the filing said.  The lawyers added that the motion to vacate the jury’s verdict was based on the doctrine of presidential immunity set forth by the Supreme Court and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.  According to the filing, the New York County District Attorney’s Office (DANY) urged the court “to front-run the Supreme Court on a federal constitutional issue with grave implications for the operation of the federal government and the relationships between state and federal officials. The record is clear: DANY was wrong, very wrong.” On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States that the former president could not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers and was entitled to presumptive immunity for official acts. Trump’s lawyers pointed to this ruling, saying that the jury was unduly influenced by evidence that should not have been used during the trial.  “Under Trump, DANY violated the Presidential immunity doctrine and the Supremacy Clause by relying on evidence relating to President Trump’s official acts in 2017 and 2018 to unfairly prejudice President Trump in this unprecedented and unfounded prosecution relating to purported business records,” the filing said.  The official-acts evidence was used to “bolster” testimony from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who was a key witness for the prosecution, according to the filing.  “Because of the implications for the institution of the Presidency, the use of official-acts evidence was a structural error under the federal Constitution that tainted DANY’s grand jury proceedings as well as the trial. These transgressions resulted in the type of deeply prejudicial error that strikes at the core of the government’s function and cannot be addressed through harmless-error analysis,” the filing said.  Trump faces sentencing for the conviction in September as the court evaluates whether the Supreme Court decision impacts the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg or not.

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