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\n\tAlec Baldwin\u2018s misconduct lawsuit against authorities in New Mexico was dismissed by a judge on Wednesday after the actor\u2019s legal team failed to pursue the case.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe case was dismissed without prejudice for lack of any significant action with the claim, and Baldwin\u2019s lawyers have 30 days to file a motion seeking reinstatement, per the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis is a non-event. The court dismissed the matter without prejudice because we have been waiting to prosecute the case,\u201d Baldwin\u2019s attorney, Luke Nikas, told Rolling Stone<\/em> in a statement. \u201cWe have been in good-faith settlement discussions with the parties to the lawsuit and will be refiling promptly if those discussions are not promptly and favorably resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn January, Baldwin filed a civil lawsuit against New Mexico prosecutors and law enforcement authorities, accusing them of \u201cmalicious prosecution\u201d\u00a0in their\u00a0involuntary manslaughter case\u00a0following the\u00a0death of\u00a0Rust<\/em>\u00a0cinematographer\u00a0Halyna Hutchins. <\/p>\n \n\tIn the filing, the actor accused prosecutors in the case of violating his constitutional rights through \u201cimproper use of the criminal process,\u201d including failing to disclose evidence to the defense on several occasions. The complaint also alleged they had used the case to benefit their \u201cpersonal agendas or professional ambitions\u201d and that prosecutors were \u201cblinded by their desire to convict Alec Baldwin for all the wrong reasons, and at any cost.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBaldwin\u2019s suit was filed against special prosecutor Kari Morrissey and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, as well as\u00a0the 1st Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office, the Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners, and investigators from the Santa Fe County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Baldwin sought punitive damages \u201cto the fullest extent permitted by law\u201d and also requested \u201cgeneral and\/or compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial for all injuries suffered,\u201d plus attorney\u2019s fees and related suit costs.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tBaldwin was tried for involuntary manslaughter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, last year after the accidental on-set shooting death of Hutchins. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer\u00a0dismissed the case\u00a0after finding that the state had withheld evidence from the defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHutchins died on the set of\u00a0Rust<\/em>\u00a0on Oct. 21, 2021 after a prop revolver fired while Baldwin, the film\u2019s star and producer, was positioning it for a scene. The actor has denied any responsibility for the death. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film\u2019s armorer, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and released from prison in May after serving 14 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alec Baldwin\u2018s misconduct lawsuit against authorities in New Mexico was dismissed by a judge on Wednesday after the actor\u2019s legal team failed to pursue the case. The case was dismissed without prejudice for lack of any significant action with the claim, and Baldwin\u2019s lawyers have 30 days to file a motion seeking reinstatement, per the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6881,6882,6883,3289,3681,3766],"class_list":{"0":"post-13188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alec","9":"tag-baldwins","10":"tag-dismissed","11":"tag-lawsuit","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-prosecutors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n