Alec Baldwin to go to trial next week after last-minute efforts to toss Rust case fail

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The actor is charged with involuntary manslaughter over the fatal shooter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.

On Wednesday, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer denied two motions filed by Baldwin's legal team last week alleging prosecutors had improperly handled evidence procedures in the case.

In a second motion filed the same day, the actor's attorneys accused prosecutors of "trial by ambush" by alleging they withheld thousands of evidence files until just weeks before trial.

 

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