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A legal dust-up over compromised text messages between a movie prop weapons expert and her lawyer in the "Rust" film shooting case raises questions about whether attorneys should text with clients and serves as a cautionary tale for prosecutors and the defense on the importance of protecting privileged communications, experts say.
In rejecting Donald Trump's absolute immunity claims in an "exhaustive" opinion Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit put significant pressure on his legal team to quickly seek U.S. Supreme Court review and avoid further delays as prosecutors look to try the former president on election interference charges before November, experts say.
In rejecting Donald Trump's absolute immunity claims in an "exhaustive" opinion Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit put significant pressure on his legal team to quickly seek U.S. Supreme Court review and avoid further delays as prosecutors look to try the former president on election interference charges before November, experts say.
In an abrupt about-face, Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Tuesday dropped claims she made a day earlier raising alarms over a potential conflict involving the New York federal judge who oversaw writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation trials that resulted in $88 million in verdicts — claims that outside experts called flimsy.
While New Mexico prosecutors face difficult odds in their renewed effort to hold Alec Baldwin criminally liable for the shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of Western movie "Rust," experts see potential paths to convicting the actor of involuntary manslaughter in a case that could redefine film industry safety standards.