Alec Baldwin is asking a New Mexico court to throw out an enhancement to the involuntary manslaughter charges against him that would lead to a five-year prison sentence if he was convicted.
In a motion filed Friday, Baldwin's attorneys argued that the actor has been unlawfully charged with a so-called firearm-enhancement to the involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021.
The current version of the fire-enhancement statute was not enacted until May 18, 2022, seven months after the deadly shooting on the western movie 'Rust,' attorneys Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel argued in their motion.
