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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope Baldwin also gets found guilty and sentenced, but I know he won't. He always gets off clean.[/quote]

I have no love for Baldwin but there is no way I would hold an actor responsible for firing a gun that was supposed to be empty of live ammo, or throwing a dummy grenade that turned out to be real, or stabbing someone with a blade that was supposed to retract. This was a movie set and Hall or the armorer handed him a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to fire. The jury will not convict him. [/quote]
I agree. And I think he pulled the trigger because he didn’t think it was loaded. It was not supposed to be. (I know he says he didn’t pull the trigger). [/quote]

Every gun is a loaded gun until you verify otherwise. Any responsible gun owners on the jury, and he's toast if that's the defense [/quote]
Hundreds of pages on this and you all still don’t get it. It’s not the actor’s responsibility to do this - the actor may or may not know ANYTHING about guns. When an actor on a set is handed a gun it’s not different than being handed any other prop. It was the armorer’s responsibility to make sure that the gun was safe and the armorer was just found guilty of not doing that. Baldwin may have civil liability as one of the many producers of the movie that hired this recklessly incompetent armorer, but he should not be criminally responsible.[/quote]

Lots of posts about Alec's lack of responsibility for this incident. Again, I initially defended him, but after seeing days of testimony and footage from the film set, I won't anymore.

He said himself on ABC interview that he knows better than to EVER point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, whether he's been told it's a cold gun or not.

BUT HE DID PULL THE TRIGGER, WHILE POINTING IT AT TWO PEOPLE.

I'm sure he'll have a talented defense attorney at trial, as did the armorer - her very capable attorney made the case against Baldwin along with the state, by the way. And this trial was also a rehearsal for the one in July. It will be a different jury, but I doubt very much they won't find him criminally liable.

[quote]NM Stat § 30-2-3 (2021)
Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.

A. Voluntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion.

Whoever commits voluntary manslaughter is guilty of a third degree felony resulting in the death of a human being.

B. Involuntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, [b]or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.[/b]

Whoever commits involuntary manslaughter is guilty of a fourth degree felony.[/quote]

Pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger when you have not checked yourself to make sure it is completely safe is definitely acting without due caution and circumspection.

There is abundant footage from the set that establishes how much Alec was in control on that set - he was driving the speed of filming as much if not more than the director. My guess is everyone was cowed to Baldwin's demands to get this crap film over with ASAP.  OSHA found him and the other management structure responsible for the safety violations and the death that occurred. I think a New Mexico jury is going to convict him of the crime, too.

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