Alec Baldwin’s tri­al for on-set Rust shoot­ing to begin this week

The tri­al for Alec Baldwin’s on-set Rust movie shoot­ing is set to begin on Tues­day and is sched­uled to be held over the course of 10 days. 
The shoot­ing occurred in Octo­ber 2021 when a gun Bald­win was hold­ing fired a live round and killed 42-year-old cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er Haly­na Hutchins. Jury selec­tion will begin on Tues­day and be fol­lowed by open­ing state­ments set for Wednes­day, with the tri­al pro­ject­ed to con­clude on July 19. 
If Bald­win is found guilty, he faces 18 months in prison. The actor has main­tained that he did not know the gun car­ried live ammu­ni­tion, and he has implied he did not pull the gun’s trig­ger.

FILE – Alec Bald­win attends the Round­about The­atre Company’s annu­al gala at the Ziegfeld Ball­room on Mon­day, March 6, 2023, in New York. (Pho­to by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, file)

Baldwin’s defense team will argue that an actor is not respon­si­ble for check­ing the bul­lets of the gun for poten­tial live rounds, which Baldwin’s union, the Screen Actors Guild-Amer­i­can Fed­er­a­tion of Tele­vi­sion and Radio Artists, has sup …