A New Mexico judge has upheld the dismissal of Alec Baldwin ‘s involuntary manslaughter charge following the fatal “Rust” on-set shooting.
District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ‘s decision, which widely surfaced Friday, argued that prosecutors failed to raise any factual or legal arguments that would lead her to reconsider her earlier ruling, according to court documents reviewed by USA TODAY Friday.
“Because the state’s amended motion raises arguments previously made, and arguments that the state elected not to raise earlier, the court does not find the amended motion well taken,” the judge wrote in her decision. The judge cited prosecutors’ “untimeliness” in her ruling because they filed an amended motion outside the time limit for an appeal…