Lawyers for Alec Baldwin declared him a “scapegoat” in a new lawsuit filed against prosecutors and law enforcement officials in New Mexico Thursday.
In the massive document, Baldwin alleges malicious prosecution, suppression of evidence, and defamation almost six months after his criminal charges for accidentally shooting and killing a cinematographer on a film set in 2021 were dismissed.
The filing, first lodged in New Mexico’s First Judicial District on Thursday, accuses the prosecutors of being “blinded by their desire to convict Alec Baldwin for all the wrong reasons, and at any cost.”…