{"id":35907,"date":"2023-02-07T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/alec-baldwin-wants-prosecutor-in-on-set-shooting-death-dropped\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:27:59","slug":"alec-baldwin-wants-prosecutor-in-on-set-shooting-death-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/alec-baldwin-wants-prosecutor-in-on-set-shooting-death-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin wants prosecutor in on-set shooting death dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8b25879e-cca5-582c-9e2f-c9214b8c2abe&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1153\" alt=\"In this image from video released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, Alec Baldwin stands in costume and speaks with investigators after a fatal shooting on a movie set in Santa Fe. (Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">In this image from video released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, Alec Baldwin stands in costume and speaks with investigators after a fatal shooting on a movie set in Santa Fe. (Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Uncredited<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>SANTA FE \u2013 Defense attorneys for actor Alec Baldwin are seeking to disqualify the special prosecutor in the case against him stemming from the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set.<\/p>\n<p>In a motion filed Tuesday in Santa Fe-based district court, Baldwin\u2019s legal team said Andrea Reeb\u2019s position as a state lawmaker prohibits her under state law from holding any authority in a judicial capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Reeb is \u201cexercising either the executive power or the judicial power, and her continued service as a special prosecutor is unconstitutional,\u201d Baldwin\u2019s team argued in the motion.<\/p>\n<p>Reeb, a Republican, was elected to the state House of Representatives in November and started her term last month.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies dismissed the idea that Reeb would be disqualified. In a statement, the office characterized the motion as nothing but a legal diversion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Baldwin and his attorneys can use whatever tactics they want to distract from the fact that Halyna Hutchins died because of gross negligence and a reckless disregard for safety on the \u2018Rust\u2019 film set,\u201d the office wrote in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin and film-set weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed are scheduled to make their first court appearance by video conference in late February. Both have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during rehearsals at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.<\/p>\n<p>A manslaughter charge can be brought if a defendant killed while doing something lawful but dangerous and was acting negligently or without caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys say lawmaker is prohibited from holding judicial authority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,1047,138,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-film","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83167,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions\/83167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}