A New Mexico judge denied Alec Baldwin's bid to drop his involuntary manslaughter charge over firearm evidence stemming from the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" before his trial starts next month.
In their request to dismiss the indictment, Baldwin's attorneys claimed the state "intentionally" destroyed key evidence -- the firearm involved in the shooting -- denying them the chance to review potentially exculpatory evidence.
Baldwin was, obviously, poorly raised. I would not even allow my son to point a toy gun at a person.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't be involuntary Manslaughter.
ReplyDeleteHe knew exactly what he was doing.
He needs to rot in jail and complete a firearms safty class every week.
Wasn't the camera on when Baldwin murdered the woman?
ReplyDeleteNo, he was talking with the camera man and actors while playing with the gun, cocking and uncocking it when it went off.
DeleteGuns don't "go off".
DeleteMuch as I dislike Baldwin, it seems to me that there is a major exception the rule of never pointing a gun at someone (unless you want to shoot him). And that exception is when you're making a movie or TV show. Watch any action movie, and you'll see actors pointing guns all the time. That's why movie sets have an armorer who is responsible for gun safety.
ReplyDeleteIt does not matter what happened leading up to the bullet being fired. Not malice, negligence, intent, inexperience, who touched the weapon, what was said when he was given the weapon, the date, what was served for lunch, wind speed, or any other damn thing.
ReplyDeleteBaldwin shot that woman.
It was an accident, we get it, but the woman is dead, because she was shot, with a pistol, that Baldwin had in his hand.
Why do you assume it was an accident?
DeleteWhat if he did it on purpose?
anytime someone hands me a gun/weapon, the first thing I do is check it to see if it is loaded
ReplyDeleteand if so, with what. having live ammo with blanks on the same set is just stupid.
anyone who doesn't check out the weapon first, has no right holding one.
only time I handled blank ammo was in the army. and I loaded every magazine myself.
seems to me there is a lot of stupid on that set.
At one point we put a monkey in the cockpit of a space craft. If that monkey had piloted that spacecraft into the Washington Monument no one would have blamed the monkey.
ReplyDeleteActors are like that.
As a producer,his is RESPONSIBLE for those actions, just not the ones where he is a trained monkey.
Manslaughter
ReplyDeleteGood
ReplyDeleteJD
This is stupid! It was a movie where the intent of the scene was to point the frigging gun! What don't you get about that? I don't much like Alec but the accident is 100% the fault of the armament person and no one else. What in the hell were real bullets even there for? Baldwin is guilty of nothing in this case the charges by the DA are ludicrious and a misuse of their power.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to forget that as producer, he was responsible for everything that happens on the set. Also, they weren't filming at the time - he was talking to the actors and camera man while cocking and uncocking the gun. In short, he was playing with the damned gun.
DeleteAnd last but not least, crew members were target shooting with the gun earlier that day. As producer, why did he allow that? So yes, he knew there was live ammo on set.
Live rounds on a movie set, wtf?
ReplyDeleteBaldwin is an idiot, no doubt. However there can be more than one individual culpable in a situation like this. The story I remember is that there were people firing live rounds between filming. Really! Anyone with brains should have got the hell out of there@