Alec Baldwin’s legal team is trying to disqualify the special prosecutor who investigated him over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set.
The special prosecutor, Andrea Reeb, was elected last year to the New Mexico House of Representatives as a Republican. She assumed office on Jan. 1, months after the First Judicial District put her in charge of Baldwin’s case.
In a motion filed on Tuesday, Baldwin’s lawyers argued that Reeb has to be disqualified because, under New Mexico’s constitution, one cannot serve as a lawmaker and a prosecuting attorney at the same time….