From the article: After special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis took over the case, they announced in April that they were dropping charges against Baldwin citing “new facts” in the case. They also said they reserved the right to re-charge him.
Two months later, the prosecutors wrote in a court filing that the gun had been sent to an independent expert for further testing.
“The charges against Alec Baldwin were dismissed without prejudice because a possible malfunction of the gun significantly affects causation with regard to Baldwin, not with regard to Gutierrez. If it is determined that the gun did not malfunction, charges against Mr. Baldwin will proceed,” they wrote.
Looks like the results of the independent testing are in and that the firearm functioned perfectly. That is to say it only fired due to pulling the trigger.
Thanks. I didn’t know they had dropped the original charges.
This is not Double Jeopardy.