Jury selection was set to begin on July 9 nearly three years after actor Alec Baldwin was directed to point his gun at Ukrainian-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins as she set up a camera shot inside a movie-set church about 30 kilometers southwest of Santa Fe. The death of the 42-year-old Hutchins in 2021 was Hollywood's first on-set shooting fatality in three decades and momentarily sparked calls to end the widespread use of real firearms on movie sets. Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial in a modern, brown-stucco courthouse in downtown Santa Fe is expected to last eight days and run to July 19.
Jury Selection In Alec Baldwin's Trial Over Death of Ukrainian-Born Cinematographer To Begin
Actor Alec Baldwin (center) participates in a pretrial hearing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 8.