A grand jury will be asked to consider "additional facts" in the on-set shooting, prosecutors say.

New Mexico prosecutors plan to recharge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over a fatal on-set shooting in October 2021.

The prosecutors dismissed charges against the Emmy award-winning actor in April, just two weeks before his trial was due to start.

But “additional facts” merit bringing the case again before a grand jury next month, they said.

  • iamericandre@lemmy.world
    172·
    2 years ago

    If the charges were dismissed wouldn’t that be considered double jeopardy charging him again for the same crime?

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Dismissed charges is not the same as going through trial and being acquitted

    • linuxgator@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Isn’t double jeopardy being tried for the same crime twice? It says the charges were dropped two weeks before going to trial, so he hasn’t been tried for it yet.