A New Mexico judge has rejected a request by the actor to dismiss the sole criminal charge against him in a fatal shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.”

Alec Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury on involuntary manslaughter in the "Rust" shooting earlier this year, after prosecutors previously dropped the charge.

The ruling keeps Baldwin’s trial on track to start on July 9. It follows a judge in April sentencing Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the Rust armorer who loaded the live round into the gun Baldwin was holding when it discharged and killed the film’s cinematographer, to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.