New Mexico’s criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal “Rust” shooting faced another setback as a judge signaled that she will reject a request by the Santa Fe prosecutor to add another high-powered attorney to the case.
New Mexico 1st Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said during a Monday hearing she is struggling to shore up an office plagued by attorney defections and vacancies. She asked a judge for authorization to hire a new special prosecutor to help land criminal convictions for Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer on the ill-fated western movie.
“We are in dire straits,” Carmack-Altwies told Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer during the virtual court hearing. “We do not have sufficient manpower to fully prosecute this (case) by ourselves.”
