New special prosecutors have been appointed to oversee criminal charges in the Rust shooting after the former lawyer handling the cases was forced to step down.

Jason Lewis and Kari Morrissey will serve as the lead lawyers in the prosecution of Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the Santa Fe District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday.

The appointment of the Albuquerque-based attorneys comes after former special prosecutor Andrea Reeb was forced to bow out of the prosecution after Baldwin’s lawyers pointed out a potential conflict of interest due to her elected position in the New Mexico House of Representatives. First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, who tapped Reeb to handle the criminal charges, will also remove herself from the cases, according to the office.

In a statement, Carmack-Altwies said her “responsibility to the people of the First Judicial District is greater than any one case.” She will
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