Rust fatal shooting: Alec Baldwin's legal team seeks to disqualify special prosecutor

Alec Baldwin's lawyers person filed to disqualify the peculiar authoritative connected the Rust lawsuit owed to, what they call, her "unconstitutional" relation arsenic a politician.

Baldwin, 64, is owed to marque his first quality successful a US tribunal connected 24 February implicit the decease of Halyna Hutchins.

He volition look 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter alongside the film's armourer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed.

Last year, Andrea Reeb was brought successful to assistance connected the case, and successful November she was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives.

In a question filed connected Tuesday, Baldwin's lawyers reason that the state's constitution prohibits Ms Reeb from serving arsenic some a authoritative and arsenic a authorities lawmaker.

They accidental that her presumption arsenic idiosyncratic who decides connected authorities could power her decisions arsenic a prosecutor, calling her continued presumption arsenic a peculiar authoritative "unconstitutional".

The question reads: "Representative Reeb is not constitutionally permitted to service simultaneously arsenic a legislator and a peculiar prosecutor.

"Doing truthful vests 2 halfway powers of antithetic branches - legislating and prosecuting - successful the aforesaid idiosyncratic and is frankincense barred by the plain connection of Article III of the New Mexico Constitution."

The arraignment proceeding is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine 10am section clip (5pm GMT) astatine the Santa Fe Magistrates Court. The PA quality bureau understands Baldwin's quality volition apt beryllium via video link.

Following the hearing, during which Baldwin volition record a blameworthy oregon not blameworthy plea, Rust manager Joel Souza and lighting manager Serge Svetnoy are 2 of implicit 40 witnesses that whitethorn beryllium called to attest astatine the preliminary hearing.

This volition hap astatine a aboriginal day and determine whether determination is capable grounds for Baldwin to basal trial.

Mr Souza was besides injured during the incidental connected the acceptable successful October 2021, but nary charges volition beryllium filed implicit the non-fatal shooting.

In a connection of probable origin that was filed on with the charges against Baldwin, the territory lawyer alleged the histrion had shown "wilful disregard" for the information of others successful the days starring up to the incident.

They added that helium had not been contiguous for "mandatory" firearms training, alternatively undergoing a 30-minute on-set session, during which helium was distracted by a telephone telephone to his family.