Alec Baldwin‘s legal professionals requested a decide on Thursday to throw out his manslaughter case, accusing prosecutors of “violating practically each rule within the e-book” in the middle of acquiring an indictment.

The attorneys argued that prosecutors leaked data to the press, did not current exculpatory proof to the grand jury, and gave a defective jury instruction on involuntary manslaughter that “stacked the deck” in opposition to Baldwin.

“Sufficient is sufficient,” the legal professionals wrote. “That is an abuse of the system, and an abuse of an harmless individual whose rights have been trampled to the intense.”

Baldwin was indicted in January and is scheduled to face a trial on July 9 in Santa Fe, N.M.

He’s accused of prison negligence for allegedly pointing a gun at “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and pulling the set off. Baldwin was unaware that the gun was loaded with a dwell bullet. Hutchins was killed and the movie’s director, Joel Souza, was critically injured.

Within the movement filed Thursday, Baldwin’s legal professionals argue that the prosecution did not make witnesses obtainable to the grand jury who would have testified that it was not the actor’s responsibility to examine the gun earlier than the scene.

The protection accuses Kari Morrissey, the particular prosecutor appointed to deal with the case, of failing to adequately inform grand jurors that they may hear from the protection witnesses in the event that they wished to.

Baldwin’s legal professionals wished jurors to listen to testimony from Souza, in addition to first assistant director Dave Halls, producer Ryan Smith, and different witnesses who they believed can be useful to Baldwin.

The protection alleges that Morrissey relied closely on the state’s professional witness, Bryan Carpenter, who, in accordance with the movement, acknowledged that the actor was accountable for secure dealing with of firearms.

The attorneys additionally accuse Morrissey of partaking in “vindictive and malicious” conduct “from begin to end.”

“The State had one aim — indict Baldwin, irrespective of the reality, irrespective of the foundations or the Court docket rulings, and it doesn’t matter what it took to take action,” Baldwin’s attorneys wrote.

The protection additionally alleges that Morrissey was quoted as an unnamed “supply acquainted with the case” by NBC Information, stating that the prosecution would “humble” Baldwin and supply a “teachable second.”

The movement presents a preview of among the factual and authorized arguments that the protection is anticipated to lift at trial, within the occasion that the movement is denied.

Baldwin has denied pulling the set off. His workforce is anticipated to deal with the situation of the gun on the time of the capturing, and to argue that it had been modified to make it simpler to fireside with out a pull of the set off.

The prosecution has maintained that the gun was working usually, and that it was damaged in a while throughout FBI testing. Within the movement to dismiss, nevertheless, the protection argues that the gun confirmed indicators of getting been filed down, and that among the inside parts appeared aged, although the gun was imagined to be model new.

The protection argued that grand jurors weren’t advised that.

Baldwin’s legal professionals have additionally been waging a struggle over the authorized definition of “involuntary manslaughter.” The movement reveals that his legal professionals sought an instruction that prosecutors must present that he had “subjective data of an precise danger that the firearm positioned in his hand had been loaded with dwell ammunition.” The court docket overseeing the grand jury rejected that proposed normal in a ruling on Jan. 11, in accordance with the movement.

The armorer on the movie, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, was convicted final week of involuntary manslaughter for loading the dwell spherical into Baldwin’s gun. She faces a most of 18 months in jail at her sentencing on April 15. Her legal professional has vowed to attraction.