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Eric Anderson recently spoke to Fox News and IndieWire about the dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case last week, in the wake of the fatal “Rust” shooting which occurred in October of 2021. The case was dismissed with prejudice by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer after it was revealed that the prosecution had concealed evidence from Baldwin’s team.

Eric explains to Fox that special prosecutor Kari Morrissey, who volunteered as a witness, “failed to show discipline as a witness, something every trial lawyer knows a witness should have.” It is a rarity for a special prosecutor to voluntarily take the witness stand in a case, and Eric adds that in this instance, it may have been in the prosecution’s best interest for Morrissey not to testify.

“It’s a classic case of needing to know when to cut your losses. The defense stated they had no need for her to testify. The judge made clear she would not require Morrissey to testify, and yet she did,” he continues in Fox.

“Her testimony clearly showed that the prosecution team decided, on their own, that there was no relevance to the Gutierrez Reed case, and they saw no need to disclose it to the Baldwin team and had shoddily filed the evidence in a different case number.”

In IndieWire, Eric remarks on the prosecution team’s performance, stating, “I don’t think they did anything correctly at any stage. And for the defense, I don’t think there’s anything they could’ve done better.” He notes that one mistake of many made by the prosecution occurred when they filed that evidence under a different file number, which they had no reason to do, after deciding independently that the evidence was irrelevant to the trial without consulting the judge.

“When in doubt, turn it over,” he shares.

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