Prosecutor seeks reinstatement of charges against Alec Baldwin in 'Rust' case

The rounds that broke the case were turned over to a Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office crime scene technician, who filed the evidence under an unrelated case number. Three of those rounds looked like live rounds recovered from the “Rust” lot after the fatal shooting.

The mysterious ammunition was dropped off at the sheriff's office by Troy Teske of Bullhead City, Arizona, who regularly stored guns and ammunition for his friend and longtime film firearms coach, Thell Reed, Gutierrez-Reed's father-in-law and mentor as a gunsmith on film sets.

Morrissey asked the judge to order defense attorneys to show when and how they learned about the ammunition supplied by Teske, calling the defense's motion to dismiss the case a “ruse.”

Baldwin's attorneys said he was unaware that live ammunition had been brought to the set and that prosecutors withheld evidence by trying to link the live ammunition on the set to Gutierrez-Reed. They said prosecutors wanted to make the argument that Baldwin should have acknowledged the gunsmith's youth and inexperience.

Gutierrez-Reed is seeking to overturn his involuntary manslaughter conviction based on allegations of suppressed evidence that emerged during Baldwin's trial.

Separately, Gutierrez-Reed requested a plea hearing on a misdemeanor firearms charge related to accusations she brought a gun into a Santa Fe bar weeks before filming began on “Rust.”