Alec Baldwin pleads not responsible in ‘Rust’ taking pictures and is allowed to maintain working

Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not responsible to felony prices of involuntary manslaughter within the taking pictures dying of a cinematographer on the set of a Western film and waived his first formal courtroom look, in courtroom paperwork filed Thursday.

Baldwin and a weapons supervisor had been charged final month with felony involuntary manslaughter within the taking pictures dying of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died shortly after being wounded throughout rehearsals at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe in October 2021.

Baldwin agreed to forgo a listening to to have his rights defined to him. A decide on Thursday set circumstances of launch that permit Baldwin to have restricted contact with potential witnesses in reference to plans to finish the filming of “Rust.”

Prosecutors and protection attorneys are making ready for a possible preliminary listening to inside a couple of months to find out whether or not there’s possible trigger to proceed to trial.

Different provisions of Baldwin’s pretrial launch embody a prohibition on consuming alcohol and towards any possession of weapons, together with firearms.

“Defendant is permitted to have contact with potential witnesses solely … in reference to finishing the ‘Rust’ film and different associated and unrelated enterprise issues; supplied, nevertheless, that defendant shouldn’t be permitted to debate the accident at difficulty,” state District Choose Mary Marlowe stated in a signed order.

The involuntary manslaughter prices towards Baldwin, a lead actor and co-producer on “Rust,” and armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed are punishable by as much as 18 months in jail and a $5,000 effective beneath New Mexico regulation.