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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I caught covid and was out sick so watched most of the trial and have been watching the last few days on recordings of Court TV in the evening after work.

I’m a former defense attorney and prosecutor so bring that perspective.

I’m not surprised the jury found her guilty and didn’t appear to deliberate long. She had an excellent defense attorney who did his best to raise reasonable doubt, but she was clearly negligent in her duties to a reckless degree. She was getting high in the evenings and she was doing all kinds of crappy work on set, the prosecutor started her closing showing a series of photos of actors and stunt people pointing guns at each other while holding weapons on set and she was right there and did nothing. Even *if* there were no live rounds on set you are always supposed to follow gun safety rules and she didn’t enforce them on set - whether because she was hungover or high or whether she suffered the same syndrome many young women in power do, she was people pleasing and didn’t want to be the bad guy calling folks out for not following the training it doesn’t matter, she was negligent in a lot of ways before a live round found its way into that revolver and then through Halyna Hutchins’s chest. The day of the shooting she had hours to check the dummies before the scenes were shot and she obviously didn’t do it or she would have caught the live round.

And while I previously defended Baldwin I now believe after hearing the testimony of several firearms experts that he DID pull the trigger and he is also guilty. I’m interested to see if he goes to trial after his lawyers watched the state’s case here and saw the evidence that was presented and will be presented in June/July at his trial if he goes. I suspect he’ll be found guilty if he does take it to trial.

It was a totally senseless death, I feel so sorry for her son and husband. [/quote]

If the gun had properly been loaded with blanks, wouldn't the scene require him to pull the trigger?  Wasn't he just doing what he was supposed to do?

The whole point of using blanks rather than no bullets and adding in effects later is to film the discharge from the muzzle.  The director had him placed so that he was aiming at the camera, for maximum visual impact.

Whether he thinks he pulled the trigger or thinks he didn't and the gun just went off (as is supposedly impossible but as the gun had already done the day before), I don't see that it matters.  [/quote]

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