Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting trial on hold after defense motion to dismiss over bullet evidence: Live updates

Prop firearms supplier Seth Kenney takes the stand in Alec Baldwin’s trial.

His testimony is happening outside the jury’s presence.

The ammunition at the center of Friday’s explosive proceedings was handed over to a crime scene technician after Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s trial by a “good Samaritan” who claimed they came from “Rust” prop supplier Seth Kenney, the owner of PDQ Props.

Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey established in her questioning that the source of the ammunition was Troy Teske, who is friends with Gutierrez-Reed’s father.

The state says the rounds do not match the rounds that were found on set because the primers are different colors.

“This is a wild goose chase,” Morrissey said. “This has no evidentiary value whatsoever.”

But the defense said that that was not for her to decide and that she should’ve disclosed it to them.

The judge asked to see the rounds and put on blue gloves. She then asked Marissa Poppell, the crime scene technician, to go through the rounds one by one.

Morrissey said the ammunition had no evidentiary value, but the defense said that that was not for her to decide and that she should’ve disclosed it to them.

Alec Baldwin’s defense filed a motion to dismiss the case over disputed ammunition evidence.

The defense argued that prosecutors hid evidence from them about the ammunition that may be related to the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021.

The prosecution has said that the ammunition was not connected to the case and was not hidden.

The issue came up Thursday with crime scene technician Marissa Poppell after Baldwin’s lawyer Alex Spiro suggested with his questions that Poppell and other authorities had been too cozy with the film’s firearms supplier Seth Kenney and had insufficiently investigated whether he was responsible for the live bullets reaching the set.

Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey established in her questioning that the source of the ammunition was Troy Teske, a friend of the father of the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

Morrissey said the bullets were not the same size or chemical composition as the live rounds found on the “Rust” set, including the one that killed Hutchins.

The jury is being dismissed for the weekend.

“Trials are fluid,” Judge Marlowe Sommer tells them.

They will return on Monday at 10:30am ET.

Court is now taking a break.

Court was expected to resume this morning in Alec Baldwin’s trial, but a motion’s hearing has delayed further testimony.

Attorneys and Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer are in the courtroom, along with Baldwin.

According to reporters at the Alec Baldwin trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will not testify today.

Prosecution is running behind with their witnesses, which delays the trial schedule.

A motion hearing will be held this morning before court resumes with the lead detective in the case.

Questions still remain about whether or not Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the Rust film set, will testify on Friday – or at all – during Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial.

She has been transported from prison to the courthouse in Santa Fe, but her attorney has said she will plead the Fifth.

There are reports that special prosecutor Kari Morrissey is now unsure whether she will call Gutierrez-Reed to testify.

Gutierrez-Reed has already been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Special prosecutors Kari Morrissey, Erlinda Johnson and Jason Lewis have arrived at the Santa Fe courthouse on Friday for Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial.