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Civil Litigation

Mar. 14, 2022

Baldwin partly blames victim for shooting

In a demand for arbitration and request for indemnification, Alec Baldwin's lawyer writes that cinematographer Halyna Hutchins gave him verbal instructions that led to a handgun discharge that killed her.

In a demand for arbitration and request for indemnification Friday, Alec Baldwin's lawyer said a cinematographer killed in October on the set of a western the actor was filming in New Mexico is at least partially to blame for her death.

The filing, by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Luke Nikas, also contains Baldwin's most comprehensive accounting of what happened on the New Mexico set of the film on Oct. 21 when cinemato...

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