Testimony continues in Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ shooting trial

Attorney Alex Spiro questioned why law enforcement waited a week to search the “Rust” prop truck that housed the blank ammunition and dummy rounds used during filming.

While live ammo was found in different areas of the Western film set, there was no live ammo recovered from the prop truck.

“You’re finding these live rounds all over the set, right? Sort of seemed to be a little bit of everywhere without much, cohesion between where you’re finding them,” Spiro said during the involuntary manslaughter trial. “And they’re housed originally in the truck. And so you go a week later to the prop truck, which has all of the ammunition. And there’s not a single live round there, right? Why did law enforcement wait a week to go to the prop truck?”

“The search warrant needed to be written,” crime scene technician Marissa Poppell explained.

“I’m not sure of why the time difference occurred exactly,” she added.

Spiro claimed that a search warrant for the church at Bonanza Creek Ranch, where “Rust” was originally filmed, was written and filed the same day of the shooting. Poppell clarified the search warrant was done the next day, Oct. 22, 2021.

“So if you could do a search warrant in one day, for one thing, why does it take seven days to do a search warrant for something else?” Spiro questioned.

“I do not know the circumstances of why there was that time frame,” Poppell testified.