Why Prosecutors Rescinded a Lenient Plea Deal They Offered Alec Baldwin last year
Why Prosecutors in the 'Rust' Shooting Case Rescinded a Lenient Plea Deal They Offered Alec Baldwin Last Year https://t.co/mcIl0kHTgV
- People (@people) April 16, 2024
Source:https://twitter.com/people/status/1780357533426647543
-The offer, which was presented to Baldwin’s legal team last October, included six months of unsupervised probation, a $500 fine, 24 hours of community service and a firearms safety class. They are the same terms Rust assistant director Dave Halls accepted in 2023.
-On October 5, 2023, the special prosecutors extended a plea offer to Mr. Baldwin as confidential and privileged plea negotiations and gave Mr. Baldwin until October 27, 2023 to accept, but then learned that one of Baldwin’s attorneys “provided all the details of the presumed confidential and privileged plea offer to a reporter with NBC News in New York,” they wrote. (PEOPLE reached out to NBC News and Baldwin's attorneys for comment, but did not immediately hear back.)
“After determining that the reporter did indeed have all the details of the plea offer extended to Mr. Baldwin, undersigned counsel received additional information that Mr. Baldwin and his counsel were working with the media to generate a campaign designed to deflect attention away from any future plea hearing to protect Mr. Baldwin’s public image,” the prosecutors wrote.
-They also said they received information Baldwin was considering accepting the plea offer but also intended to file a civil complaint against the State of New Mexico and the former prosecutors in the case, who originally indicted the actor in January 2023 at the same time they also indicted Gutierrez-Reed and Halls.