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Baldwin no longer facing 5-year firearm enhancement

By Tom Knighton

Actor Alec Baldwin isn’t set to have a great 2023. After all, he’s facing manslaughter charges over the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust. Even if he can beat the charge, it’s going to take a lot of time and money to do so.

If there’s any good news for the actor, it’s that he won’t be facing a five-year sentencing enhancement over the use of a firearm.

The prosecution in the case of a fatal New Mexico film-set shooting made a stark turnaround Monday, dropping the possibility of a mandatory five-year sentence against Alec Baldwin, new court filings show.

The actor-producer’s attorneys had earlier objected to the enhancement, saying it was unconstitutional because it was added after the October 2021 shooting. Legal experts had said Baldwin had a strong chance of seeing it tossed out.

“The prosecutors committed a basic legal error by charging Mr. Baldwin under a version of the firearm-enhancement statue that did not exist on the date of the accident,” Baldwin’s attorneys said in an earlier court filing.

Baldwin’s attorney declined to comment Monday after the reversal by prosecutors, who earlier criticized his efforts to have the sentencing requirement dropped. The related standard for the possibility of a mandatory five years would be reckless disregard of safety “without due caution and circumspection” and carried a higher threshold of wrongdoing.

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