He killed her with a gun and this is what the gun-enhancement provision is for!! So now the 5 year mandatory sentence is gone.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/gun-enhancement-charge-against-alec-baldwin-dropped-in-rust-shooting-case/ar-AA17IL4L?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The request from Alec Baldwin's attorneys to drop a five-year gun-enhancement charge against the actor has been granted.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the Sante Fe District Attorney's Office dropped the charge against Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed on Monday. Baldwin still faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer
Halyna Hutchins during production of the film Rust.
Conviction on the gun-enhancement charge carries a mandatory five-year sentence. If convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Baldwin would face an 18-month sentence.
On Feb. 10, Baldwin's team filed a motion challenging the gun enhancement, arguing prosecutors in New Mexico made an error by applying it to the case against the actor because it did not exist in its current iteration when the incident took place,
according to Variety.
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