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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think people understand how incredibly rare it is to have criminal charges arise out of workplace mortality.  I can think of one case over decades of legal practice in the employment realm.  Negligence suits, workers comp, yeah.  Criminal liability…super rare, and for good reason.  And the case I’m thinking of, it was an owner/operator who knew of the dangers and ignored them—-not a worker using tools or the trade.  It may be that the evidence will show Baldwin was well aware of the issues, and knew the armorer was not on set.  But I haven’t seen that evidence yet and I think a conviction will be very hard without it.  One factor that seems relevant to me — he was inside a very small building at the time, and may have thought the armorer was just outside with the equipment, having handed the gun to the AD and told him it was a cold gun (meaning no ammunition at all — even dummy).  The AD  plainly knew this was not the case so I was surprised the AD got off with probation and Baldwin got charged.   To me, the AD seems to bear a lot of fault here.  Who told him the gun was cold and why would he take their word for it if it wasn’t the armorer?  [/quote]

The AD accepted a plea deal. Is it not possible that Baldwin was offered the same?[/quote]

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