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Spiro, citing other commitments, pushed for Baldwin to be tried in June.
Of course, they can be ready in June.
They brought this case.
They decided to bring this case back.
Sommersdecisionthat the trial would start in July provided additional scheduling details.
Jury selection, of course, would be first, starting on July 9.
In her order, Sommer said she expected the trial to run approximately eight days, until July 19.
All that evidence, its part of the record.
All the witness testimony, thats all fair game in Baldwin case, Rahmani said.
You know what all the key witnesses are going to say, you know what the prosecutions theory is.
Obviously, its a huge advantage for him to go second.
If I were defending Baldwin, it would be a gift from God, Lichtman said.
Baldwin was first charged with involuntary manslaughter in January 2023 over Hutchinss death.
Less than two months later, Spiro said that the gun had been destroyed by the state.
The prosecution wound up dropping the case shortly thereafter.
But this indictment doesnt mean that the prosecutors have a winning case.
(Its very easy to get a grand-jury indictment, Rahmani said.
The defendant isnt there.
They hear a one-sided account of the evidence.)
Theyre two separate defendants, and prosecutors are probing different types of behavior in their respective trials.
Will a conviction of Gutierrez mean theres a greater likelihood theyre going to get Baldwin?
No, Lovell said.
If shes acquitted, then the case against him got impossibly more difficult for prosecutors, Lovell said.
