Alec Baldwin is due to appear in court on charges related to the Rust planned death penalty.

Alec Baldwin's first court appearance has been scheduled as he faces charges of firearm safety violations and involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set. A New Mexico court scheduled Baldwin and film-set weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to testify via videoconference before Santa Fe-based District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer in late February, giving the defendants several weeks ....