Too much Alec Baldwin news today.

Two days after Baldwin’s defense filed the Feb. 10 motion, special prosecutor Andrea Reeb wrote in an email: “We are a tad confused on your motion on the firearm enhancement.” A spokesperson for the prosecution had also spoken to CNBC, saying that the motion to reduce the charges was only an attempt to distract from the criminal case. Prosecutors have referred to Baldwin’s lawyers as “fancy attorneys.”

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If the events described below are accurate, I will be very surprised is the prosecutor does not face disciplinary charges before the New Mexico Bar. As a government agent, a prosecutor has a duty to see that the defendant's rights are protected. This prosecutor seems more interested in promoting her political career.

Below is the text of a document filed with the court by Baldwin's attorneys on Monday..

2. Given that the Motion set forth substantial—indeed, clearly correct—legal arguments showing that Mr. Baldwin is legally innocent of the portion of the Original Information carrying the greatest penalty, it demanded careful consideration by the government. Instead, a spokesperson for the government immediately issued an extraordinary statement to the media characterizing the Motion as an “attempt to distract” from the case by Mr. Baldwin’s “fancy lawyers.” [citations omitted]

Two days later, on Sunday, February 16, Andrea Reeb, the putative special prosecutor,1 sent a lengthy email to Mr. Baldwin’s counsel in which she accused Mr. Baldwin’s counsel of failing to follow proper procedure, demanded Mr. Baldwin withdraw the Motion, and even threatened counsel with sanctions if they refused to do so. [citations omitted] Approximately twenty minutes later, before Mr. Baldwin’s counsel had responded to the initial missive, Ms. Reeb sent another email, noting that she would “look at the specific numbers and sections to make sure [they had] it correct”—apparently indicating that up to that point, the government had never undertaken to examine the statutes charged in the Original Information. [citations omitted]

Less than two hours later, Ms. Reeb emailed Mr. Baldwin’s counsel a third time, now noting that she had been “busy in session all week” due to her simultaneous service in the New Mexico Legislature, but that she had finally taken the time to examine the enhancement statute and now “100 percent agree[d]” with Mr. Baldwin’s “assessment of the issue.”2 [citations omitted] She promised that the government would “amend the criminal information to take off the firearm enhancement.” Id. And she requested that Mr. Baldwin withdraw the Motion in light of the government’s change in position.

3. After waiting more than a week, on February 20, 2023, the government filed a First Amended Criminal Information (the “Amended Information”), which omits the unconstitutional enhancement. The government has nevertheless continued to issue statements to the media criticizing Mr. Baldwin and his counsel for filing a meritorious motion, stating that the government’s withdrawal of the enhancement is intended to “avoid further litigious distractions by Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys” and that the prosecution’s priority is “securing justice, not securing billable hours for big-city attorneys.” [citations omitted]

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The judge should remove this prosecutor. That's what the judge should do. Baldwin should hope that the judge doesn't, because it's very unlikely that her replacement would be so bad at the job.