Alec Baldwin’s attorneys went back to court to get the “Rust” involuntary manslaughter case against the actor dismissed due to claims of destruction of the gun in the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
During a virtual court hearing on Monday, attorneys for the 66-year-old actor argued that when the FBI took a mallet to Baldwin’s Colt .45 revolver during testing of the gun, it destroyed the defense’s case that the gun could have fired due to mechanical issues, CBS News reported.
Baldwin’s attorney John Bash said the government “understood that this was potentially exculpatory evidence and they destroyed it anyway. It’s outrageous and it requires dismissal.”
“This is among the most egregious constellation of facts I’ve ever seen,” he added, Variety noted. “They knew it would be destroyed, and they did nothing to preserve the evidence for the…
