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What to know about the 'Rust' shooting case as attention turns to Alec Baldwin's trial

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Now that jurors in New Mexico have convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust," attention will turn to the actor's own trial.

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer of the film, was pointing a gun at Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside in October 2021 when the. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the gun fired.

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