SANTA FE.- “Mr. (Alec) Baldwin, are you worried that this will end in jail?” an Australian journalist asked the actor as he entered with his family of a tribunal from New Mexico this Tuesday. Alec Baldwin She gave him an annoyed look, before continuing on her way without saying a word.
The actor faces a manslaughter trial. Baldwin was holding the gun that fatally wounded the director of photography of Rust, Halyna Hutchins, October 2021.
If convicted, he could spend up to 18 months in prison.
The road to trial has been long and complex. Baldwin was charged, but the prosecution later backed down, only to return with a new charge months later.
Baldwin’s lawyers’ attempts to avoid trial failed.
The process
Thus, the day finally arrived for the 66-year-old actor, who surprisingly attended the final preliminary hearing in person on Monday at the Santa Fe court, where he appeared calm.
In his first court appearance, he wore a dark suit, shaved hair and horn-rimmed glasses, and took notes on a yellow legal pad as lawyers discussed procedural details.
The actor of 30 Rock He spent breaks watching videos on his phone in one of the court’s hallways.
Baldwin returned to court on Tuesday accompanied by his wife Hilaria and one of the couple’s seven children. About 15 minutes later, Stephen Baldwin, another member of the well-known acting clan, arrived to support his older brother.
The scene seemed straight out of the reality TV project that Alec Baldwin and his wife recently announced with the US network TLC.
The show promises to bring viewers “the highs and the lows, the good, the bad, the wild and the crazy” of life in the Baldwin clan, whose seven children range in age from 20 months to 10 years.
But this Tuesday, none of them opened their mouths.
The couple, who arrived in different black vans, along with a nanny and an army of lawyers, refused to answer questions from journalists at the doors of the Santa Fe court.
The jury selection began on Tuesday morning.
In a sign of the challenges of such a high-profile case, only a couple of the preselected jurors raised their hands when the judge asked who hadn’t heard anything about the shooting on the set of “Rust.”
Opening arguments in the high-profile case are due to be heard by the court on Wednesday. The trial is expected to last about 10 days.
FUENTE: AFP