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Edward Helmore

Rust shooting: what a new indictment will mean for Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin
The new indictment alleges that Baldwin caused Hutchins’ death either by negligence or ‘total disregard or indifference’ for safety. Photograph: Jason Szenes/EPA

Legal experts are weighing in on actor Alec Baldwin’s potential defense strategies after charges of involuntary manslaughter were refiled against the 65-year-old actor by a New Mexico grand jury in connection to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a scene rehearsal on the set of Rust three years ago.

The charges against Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer of the ill-fated western, were dropped last April after “new facts” surfaced requiring further forensic analysis of the Italian-made “facsimile” of a Colt 1873 single-action revolver used in the shooting.

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