{"id":1658762,"date":"2022-09-26T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658762"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:58:32","slug":"are-criminal-charges-on-the-way-for-alec-baldwin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-criminal-charges-on-the-way-for-alec-baldwin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Criminal Charges On The Way For Alec Baldwin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fare-criminal-charges-on-the-way-for-alec-baldwin-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Criminal charges may be on the way for actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alec-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alec Baldwin<\/a>, according to a report published Monday by entertainment website TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/09\/26\/alec-baldwin-criminal-charges-could-be-coming-da-requesting-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> detailed several recent moves made by District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies that indicate she could be planning to prosecute the actor in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/baldwin-on-if-he-feels-guilt-for-killing-halyna-hutchins-no-someone-is-responsible-its-not-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halyna Hutchins<\/a> on the set of his film \u201cRust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/state-allots-money-for-costs-tied-to-4-potential-rust-prosecutions\/article_698d26e8-3a99-11ed-bf8c-171a9944036d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, Carmack-Altwies filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/alec-baldwin-apos-rust-apos-223111595.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency request<\/a> last week \u2014 asking\u00a0the New Mexico Board of Finance for $635,000 to support \u201cup to four possible criminal cases\u201d that she indicated could arise out of the ongoing investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The state board approved half the requested amount, granting her $317,000 to assist in funding a\u00a0special prosecutor, special investigator, experts and others. The prosecutor said that up to four people could face charges \u2014 although she also noted that they might not all be found criminally liable. \u201cWe will be requesting a special appropriation for the rest of the money,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the possible defendants is well known movie actor Alec Baldwin,\u201d Carmack-Altwies said. She did not name any other members of the cast or crew who may still be under investigation, but she did list a number of possible charges, saying that her office was \u201ccertainly looking at all the homicide statutes and any gun statutes under New Mexico criminal code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carmack-Altwies stated that the requested funds would be used to finance up to four separate jury trials pursuant to the shooting that killed Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.<\/p>\n<p>A full report from the\u00a0Santa Fe County Sheriff\u2019s Office \u2014 based on the lengthy investigation \u2014 is expected to be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor did not say for certain that she intended to file criminal charges but wanted the funding in place before the report\u2019s release in the event that prosecutions were deemed warranted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts in firearms, the handling of firearms on movie sets, and safety protocols on move sets must be retained immediately,\u201d Carmack-Altwies explained in the request. \u201cIf the First Judicial District Attorney \u2026 were to take funding for the \u2018RUST\u2019 prosecution out of the general fund, there would not be enough funding to pay our employees, expert witnesses needed for other cases and general everyday expenses of the office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal charges may be on the way for actor Alec Baldwin, according to a report published Monday by entertainment website TMZ. The report detailed several recent moves made by District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies that indicate she could be planning to prosecute the actor in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}