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The lawyer representing the family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was killed when a gun in actor Alec Baldwin's hand fired on the set of the movie Rust, criticized the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department for releasing a trove of materials from the investigation.
Halyna Hutchins is at the official opening party of the festival.
According to the Times, Brian Panish, the attorney representing Matthew Hutchins and his son, sent a letter to the sheriff's office saying the office violated the family's constitutional rights by showing the video.
Panish said that the first time Matthew Hutchins saw the disturbing and unnerving video footage of his dying wife lying on the church floor was on the gossip site Radar Online.
Under New Mexico law, victims and their families have the right to review materials before they are publicly released, and Panish said that Matthew Hutchins was given less than a day to review the massive amount of materials.
Panish wrote that there could be consequences to the video being on the internet.
Forbes reached out to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department.
The Hutchins family's constitutional rights were trampled on by your office. Panish wrote that the damage your office has done is irreparable.
The documents were released to comply with a public records request. The investigation is still ongoing and several components need to be completed, including FBI ballistics and firearm forensic analysis. No one has been charged, the case has not been turned over to the district attorney, and it is still too early to rule out criminal charges. Matthew Hutchins sued Baldwin and others for wrongful death. Baldwin has said that he did not pull the gun and that it was safe to use.
Matthew Hutchins said it was absurd for Baldwin to claim he wasn't responsible for the shooting, because he had just described it.
No one is off the hook for criminal charges.
The investigation is still ongoing six months after the shooting.
The family of Alec Baldwin's victim was sued for wrongful death.
Rust's widow wants Alec Baldwin to be responsible for death.
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