A New Mexico criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin stemming from a fatal shooting on the set of his movie “Rust” in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case’s dismissal.
Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew that appeal, according to a statement from the Frist Judicial District Attorney’s office.
Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement that “today’s decision to dismiss the appeal is the final vindication of what Alec Baldwin and his attorneys have said from the beginning – this was an unspeakable tragedy but Alec Baldwin committed no crime.”
A New Mexico judge had dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in July, agreeing with the actor’s lawyers that Morrissey and the sheriff’s office concealed evidence about the source of the live round that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
The district attorney office said it still strongly disagreed with the judge’s decision to toss out the case against Baldwin.
But the decision to drop the appeal of that decision was made after the Office of the Attorney General told Morrissey that it “did not intend to exhaustively pursue the appeal on behalf of the prosecution,” according to the statement.