Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Trial Date Set for Summer, Expected to Last 9 Days

Alec Baldwin‘s trial for the “Rust” taking pictures has been calendared — and it is coming before he may’ve anticipated … a date’s been set for mid-summer, and it will go for a week-plus.

Courtroom proceedings for the actor’s manslaughter trial are scheduled to start with jury choice, which is able to begin on July 9. After that … the trial kicks off the subsequent day on July 10, and New Mexico officers say he’ll be within the sizzling seat for the next 9 days.

The trial is predicted to run via at the very least July 19 … and that does not appear to issue deliberations afterward. All in all, Alec can be spending an excellent portion of his summer season there in Santa Fe as prosecutors try and show, past an affordable doubt, that he was legally answerable for the dying of Halyna Hutchins — which Alec has pled not guilty to, formally.

There’s gonna be a bunch of pretrial motions that’ll be heard within the months forward of the trial date — and greatest imagine Alec and his attorneys can be getting ready their greatest protection.

Thoughts you, the on-set armorer for the doomed movie is currently on trial herself — and she or he, too, is being prosecuted on manslaughter prices. It stays to be seen how that’ll shake out.

As we reported … that is the 2nd time AB has been accused of manslaughter by the state — the primary time round, they ended up dropping the fees … however within the months since, they’ve dug up extra proof that they imagine implicates him in a criminal offense and went after him anew.

A grand jury handed down another indictment in opposition to him earlier this yr … a call that many have been anticipating based mostly on the best way officers have been speaking in regards to the case of late.

Alec has lengthy insisted … he had no concept there was a dwell spherical within the gun he used throughout a rehearsal, and he is additionally stated clearly — ensuring it was secure wasn’t his duty.