Alec Baldwin Trial: Defense Claims Prosecution Withheld ‘Good Samaritan’ Evidence Backing ‘Sabotage’ Theory

The defense attorney in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial on Thursday accused prosecutors of withholding evidence provided by a so-called “good Samaritan,” which he said supports the theory that some kind of sabotage is to blame for the live round that killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” in October, 2021.

The prosecution, however, revealed that this “good Samaritan” was in fact a longtime family friend of “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed — who was convicted in her own manslaughter trial in March and is now serving an 18 month prison sentence — and that the purported evidence did not actually support the theory at all.