Slay Reports: Hollywood star Alec Baldwin’s request to have his involuntary manslaughter charges dropped has been rejected by the judge overseeing the trial.

The judge denied Baldwin’s request to dismiss the charges based on the alleged destruction of exculpatory evidence.

Baldwin’s lawyers claimed that the FBI impaired the actor’s right to a fair trial by destroying the handgun at the center of the case during forensic testing.

But the judge sided with prosecutors in a Friday ruling.

The judge’s decision sets the stage for a trial next week.

Baldwin has long denied any wrongdoing in the tragic shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The young mother was killed in October 2021 when Baldwin shot her with a prop gun loaded with a live bullet.

The case has taken a winding path.

Prosecutors previously dismissed charges only to refile them in January upon further analysis of the revolver.