The judge dropped the charges and now the prosecutors in New Mexico are withdrawing their appeal against the decision, in the case where actor Alec Baldwin was charged with causing another person's death.
In October 2021, Baldwin fired a shot that killed photographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza during the filming of the movie "Rust". The gun, which was supposed to be loaded with blank rounds, turned out to be live.
The trial was dropped in July due to allegations that the police and prosecutors had withheld evidence from the defense. But the prosecutors appealed the judge's decision to drop the charges, an appeal they are now announcing they are withdrawing.
The film's armorer, 24-year-old Hanna Gutierrez Reed, has previously been sentenced to one and a half years in prison for causing another person's death.
