Lead detective in Alec Baldwin case to testify, convicted armourer may be called

The lead detective in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust is likely to be on the stand for most of Friday at Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico.

Ms Hancock was on the stand briefly at the end of the day on Thursday and will continue her direct examination by the prosecution on Friday before undergoing what is likely to be a long cross-examination by the defence as they look to poke holes in an investigation they have suggested unfairly focused on Baldwin.

Both Mr Pietta and a sales distributor who handled the gun as recently as September 2021 testified that the revolver was in good working order and had not been modified.“If you want to release the hammer you have to pull the trigger,” he told the courtroom. Before Ms Hancock returns to the stand, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer will consider striking testimony from Thursday about a “good Samaritan” who walked into a sheriff’s station with what he told authorities was the supply of ammunition that the bullet that killed Ms Hutchins came from, after the conviction early this year of Gutierrez-Reed for involuntary manslaughter.

Mr Spiro asked Ms Poppell whether the “good Samaritan” had brought the ammunition into the sheriff’s department, and she said he had and she had written a report on it, denying that she had “buried it” to keep it from the defence.

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