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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[neaira]

I find this whole situation so sad. I just don't understand how you "accidentally" load a live round into a stunt gun. Like, how does that happen?

[jemgirl90]

I just don't understand how you "accidentally" load a live round into a stunt gun.

It's not as easy to tell apart as you may think.

Can you spot the live round here?

[neaira]

I absolutely cannot. lol But then there's the question of why was there live ammunition in the prop closet? How do you say cucumber? It's bananas.

[daredevilwolf]

i still hope he goes to jail

also if he's found not guilty

they better not talk about or film him during this on his stupid reality show

that would spit in the face of the victim

[jemgirl90]

[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.

[genbu_no_miko24]

", prosecutors argue that if Baldwin had checked the weapon or obeyed simple rules of safe gun handling, Hutchins would be alive."

Is that still the case when the last routine check wasn't done with him iirc? Wasn't it that he was just handed the gun and told it was fine?

From what I've heard other actors, it's basically a routine check before the gun is given to the actor and when the gun is given to the actor.

[jemgirl90]

This is how it's done

Also,they were in a rehearsal and foam replicas are used in rehearsal. There should have never been a gun on given until they sorted filming

[genbu_no_miko24]

Lol Jeffrey's interview is exactly what I was thinking of!

It's def all negligence.