A nearly three-year legal saga for Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer has ended without a verdict but with tears of relief for the actor and a small coterie of family who had settled into a somber routine inside a windowless New Mexico courtroom at trial.

A defense attorney says that Alec Baldwin's shooting of a cinematographer was “an unspeakable tragedy,” but that he “committed no crime, he was an actor, acting.”.