With her spouse, Alec Baldwin, facing a felony manslaughter charge, Hilaria Baldwin showed up in a black SUV with the couple’s baby in tow shortly before jury selection got underway.
— Her husband is the actor, but some legal experts believe Hilaria Baldwin staged some theatrics of her own Tuesday morning at a press-swarmed New Mexico courthouse.
With her spouse, Alec Baldwin, facing a felony manslaughter charge, the polarizing yogi showed up to the sun-baked Santa Fe building in a black SUV with the couple’s baby in tow shortly before jury selection got underway.
The toddler, one of the couple’s seven children, was taken out of the car. Hilaria held the baby girl in view of the cameras before quickly handing her off to a caretaker. The baby and the caretaker departed in the same SUV moments later.
Legal observers speculated the Baldwins wanted to humanize the churlish actor in the eyes of the public and perhaps even potential jurors.
« The bringing of the child is unusual because it’s not really a great place for a child », divorce attorney Christopher C. Melcher told Fox News Digital. « And you’ve got to think, if they have care with a nanny, why bring the child other than for show? »
The Baldwins, he said, knew images of the mother and child arriving at the courthouse would quickly cascade online.
« There’s many people who have to go to court, and they have no child care, and they’re stuck bringing their kid to court », Melcher said.
