{"id":49467,"date":"2025-07-31T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49467\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:54:07","slug":"alec-baldwins-lawsuit-for-malicious-prosecution-in-fatal-rust-set-shooting-dismissed-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49467\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin’s lawsuit for malicious prosecution in fatal \u2018Rust\u2019 set shooting dismissed by judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin<\/a> for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie \u201cRust.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge in a ruling made public Wednesday dismissed the case without prejudice for lack of any significant action with the claim, which was filed in state district court earlier this year. Baldwin\u2019s attorneys will have 30 days to file a motion seeking reinstatement.<\/p>\n

Luke Nikas, Baldwin\u2019s lead attorney, told The Associated Press in an email that the dismissal amounted to a nonevent since his team has been waiting to prosecute the case.<\/p>\n

Actor Alec Baldwin attends his trial for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie \u201cRust,\u201d July 12, 2024, at the County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been in good-faith settlement discussions with the parties to the lawsuit and will be refiling promptly if those discussions are not promptly and favorably resolved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Defendants include special prosecutor Kari Morrissey and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, along with three investigators from the Santa Fe County sheriff\u2019s office and the county board of commissioners.<\/p>\n

Baldwin fatally shot Halyna Hutchins while on the set of \u201cRust\u201d in 2021.<\/p>\n

A charge of involuntary manslaughter against Baldwin was dismissed at trial last year on allegations that police and prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense. The trial was upended by revelations that ammunition was brought into the Santa Fe County sheriff\u2019s office months earlier by a man who said it could be related to the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.<\/p>\n

The allegations in Baldwin\u2019s tort claim<\/a> include defamation, with his attorneys saying that prosecutors and investigators targeted the actor and coproducer for professional or political gain.<\/p>\n

Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during a rehearsal for the movie \u201cRust\u201d in October 2021 at a film-set ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n

The allegations in Baldwin\u2019s tort claim include defamation, with his attorneys saying that prosecutors and investigators targeted the actor and coproducer for professional or political gain. Santa Fe County Sheriff<\/p>\n

Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when it discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer \u2014 but not the trigger \u2014 and the revolver fired.<\/p>\n

The actor recently spoke to The Associated Press at San Diego\u2019s Comic-Con International, saying he couldn\u2019t believe what happened that day in court as the trial came to an abrupt end and that his life over the last year has been far better than the few years that preceded it.<\/p>\n

Still, Baldwin and other producers of \u201cRust\u201d are being sued in New Mexico state court by the parents and younger sister of Hutchins. Court records show a deposition for Baldwin in that case was put off in May and has yet to be rescheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin for malicious prosecution and civil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[26284,236,8679,88,38340,3130,4382,194],"class_list":["post-49467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alec-baldwin","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-entertainment","tag-judges","tag-lawsuits","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}