Charges against Alec Baldwin dropped. - Kotaku In Action 2

Charges against Alec Baldwin dropped. (archive.ph)

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– subbookkeeper 4 points 170 days ago +4 / -0

The evidence that sank the case, revealed during the trial's second day of testimony Thursday, was the existence of ammunition that was brought into the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammo unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged they “buried” it. The defense filed one of many motions they had made to dismiss the case over evidence issues. All the others were rejected. But this one took.

So the Defense just sprayed and prayed and for some reason this one worked?

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– LauriThorne 5 points 170 days ago +5 / -0

No, the judge got her marching orders and threw the case out over any excuse that was left.

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– raptor_jesus 2 points 170 days ago +2 / -0

You raise as many motions as possible to dismiss a case. That's normal. If argument A doesn't work, then you go to arhument B and so on. And to save everyone time many jurisdictions require you to make all your initial pleas to dismiss the case at once. Then whichever the judge deems to have merit move forward. (Exceptions being newly discovered evidence, precedent being set in similar higher courts, etc.)

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