 A judge has ruled that actor Alec Baldwin's status as a producer is not relevant to his involuntary manslaughter trial. Prosecutors had argued in a pretrial hearing on Monday that Alec Baldwin knew he was acting negligently on the set of the movie Rust because he was a co-producer. Judge Mary Marlowe-Summer sided with Baldwin's defense. She said she had difficulty with prosecutors' position that Baldwin allowed safety lapses as a producer that caused Baldwin as an actor to shoot Helena Hutchins during a rehearsal. As a producer,