Alec Baldwin appears in court ahead of involuntary manslaughter trial

[jemgirl90]

To convict Alec Baldwin, the jury must find that he acted with “willful disregard” for safety - that is, that he knew what he was doing was dangerous, and did it anyway.

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- Variety (@Variety) July 8, 2024
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[babarsuhail]

He already had a huge win today.

A New Mexico judge decided Monday that actor Alec Baldwin‘s role as co-producer isn’t relevant to the involuntary manslaughter trial over a fatal shooting on the set of the Western film “Rust.” https://t.co/xntaVYmYwQ
- PBS News (@NewsHour) July 8, 2024

With that out of the way, I don't see how anyone can convict him when he had no idea there was a live round in the gun.

[aristobrit]

Because he was still negligent and reckless in his handling of the gun. He fired several times. They tested the gun and found that it didn't misfire, as he claimed.

They have behind the scenes footage of him pointing a gun at a crew member and he has to be told to stop it.

He's made several films where he used guns, most recently a Mission Impossible movie. So he can't claim that he was ignorant of how firearms are handled on film sets. He knew what he was doing was wrong.

[babarsuhail]

actually, they reassembled the gun after it was broken during previous testing by the FBI so it could easily get thrown out since the gun wasn't in its original state.

https://news.sky.com/story/alec-baldwin-could-still-be-charged-over-rust-shooting-after-new-gun-test-casts-doubt-on-his-account-12941346

[aristobrit]

How many shots were fired? Five or six? I'd be interested in seeing the stats on five misfires in a row happening, because that simply doesn't sound credible.

Stats say handguns experience a misfire 1 out of 300,000 times. I still think he's going to be convicted, he was negligent any way you cut it.

[daijouboo]

It was also an extremely stressful set in general, and on the day of Halyna Hutchin's shooting that tension had reached a boiling point. That was the day that 7 members of the camera crew walked off set because of the poor treatment and general lack of professionalism. It was wild to watch the whole thing kind of unfold retrospectively in the comment section of a pro-Iatse video Alec Baldwin posted no less! Like basically one of the camera guys wrote something along the lines of "I'm on a set with you right now and you're treating your crew like dogshit" and then spilled about how miserable and unprofessional the set was.

[irajaxon]

the more powerful you are, the more unwilling judicial system is to hold you accountable. this country is a fucking joke.

[xdecadentx]

How can it not be relevant, wtf?