Glad he got off. I always thought it was bullshit that anyone would try to hold him accountable. The weapons expert, yes. The actor who was told the prop was safe, hell no.
Yes and no. The circumstances surrounding the death were… Not great. Evidence of Baldwin playing with the weapon, pretending to fire it, aiming it at cast and crew, etc… Plus there’s the whole “they were filming during a strike, and Baldwin (who was also the executive producer) went out of his way to hire an unqualified scab as a weapons master” part of things too.
That last bit is pretty damning. I hadn’t heard that. Changes my thinking about his culpability.
The armouror was a scab? That’s the first I’m hearing of that. Do you have a link?
Exactly this. There are a few reasons to hold him accountable. Plus she DIED, she wasn’t just injured.
Looks like he…
🕶️
Dodged a bullet…
Queue loud song by The Who…
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
¿Que loud song?
We’re talking about the way a TV show starts called CSI: MIAMI.
Basically, there’s always a clever remark from the lead, followed by the opening credits accompanied by part of a song by The Who.
The word for signaling something is “cue”. A queue is a bunch of people in line; the words are homonyms. They are using “que” as a joke due to the similar spelling and somewhat similar pronunciation.
Now I’m very curious. It looks like the question revolves around how, exactly, the police got a hold of the ammunition involved?
Did cops try to frame a guilty man?
Is Alec Baldwin the new OJ?
The prosecution brought an envelope of bullets into the courtroom but had never notified the defense they had them. That would be a BIG fucking ‘nope’ in any court case.
That’s so fucking stupid it makes me question whether they intentionally tanked the case. This aspect of evidence disclosure is literally covered in My Cousin Vinny: https://youtu.be/uaoymfY9Kw0
Now I’m very curious. It looks like the question revolves around how, exactly, the police got a hold of the ammunition involved?
Were you not ‘very curious’ enough to actually look at literally any of the real and active reporting on this before your comment?
There was no question as to ‘how, exactly, the police got a hold of the ammunition involved’ and it is a core fact among the details of why case was dismissed.
They even played the officer’s bodycam footage of an early formal interview of the former officer that brought the bullets in as evidence (that the officer on the stand pitifully tried to pretend wasn’t an interview) in which the prosecutor was present. The evidence was intentionally filed under another case number so it wouldn’t be associated with Baldwin’s case (or the Reed case that I believe was ongoing when it was actually brought in). And THEN, cherry on top, they also discovered while looking at the undisclosed bullet evidence in this court, despite the prosecutors claims that the bullets were not associated with the Rust set thus not counted as evidence, that there were matching bullets of the type that were on the Rust set.
Some link to this as the moment the case fully unraveled: https://www.youtube.com/live/0VEoEvcJNhE?t=28995s
Where the prosecutor has put herself on the stand and opened herself up to answering defense questions under oath: https://www.youtube.com/live/0VEoEvcJNhE?t=32578s
It’s among the craziest prosecutorial malfeasance shit I’ve ever seen from a high profile, video recorded court proceeding. One prosecutor resigned and LEFT earlier in the day as things were unraveling, and then the prosecutor that was still there put herself on the stand as-a-prosecution-witness to give testimony about the bullets, which even allowed the defense to question her about witness statements that she called Baldwin a cocksucker, about witness statements that she called Baldwin an arrogant prick, and about witness statements that she would ‘teach him a lesson’. In the context of a lawyer, putting oneself on the witness stand as a lawyer in the case, even as a prosecutor, is mental breakdown levels of personal desperation, even if they want to claim it was an attempt to preserve an appeal of the dismissal.
Amazing how they handled their case properly for the wage slave and got a conviction too…
While here they mishandled the case for a rich parasite?
How does this always happen haha
Clown world
In the article it mentions how the evidence came to light after her conviction. I don’t know if that means her appeal changes because of this, but it seems to me like this evidence only affected Baldwin’s case and how the prosecution handled it.
Expensive lawyers are better about using slip ups to get their clients free, but that doesn’t mean that the only difference between the two was money.
If they wanted to let a rich person walk free they could have simply refused to prosecute
That would be make the prosecutor look very bad in such high profile case.
“Technical fumble” allows them to save face.
Technical fumbles hurt them professionally a lot more. This was a pretty bad fuck up.
Well then it must have really been worth it then.
I am not saying this case is one way or the other but y’all acting like it is definitely not corruption when statistical analysis indicates that wealthy perps get away with murder.
At some point, people start to notice.
Sure. But also it’s the states job to prove a guilty verdict. And personally if they’re gonna pull this crap I’m happy the case got dismissed.
But also it’s the states job to prove a guilty verdict.
The state clearly “tried”
The prosecutor mishandled critical evidence which makes her look like a fucking idiot at best and corrupt at worst. There’s no saving face here.
Alec walks is all that matters tho!
Remember that guy that did epstein settlement in FL? His career went pretty well until he got caught with bunker bitch nomination and it came out that he knew the facts and still settled.
Very likely that the armorer will have her conviction overturned because of the same errors.
I still think she fucked up, I am not going to change my mind on technically for either of them tho.
Him being “an owner” and creating a culture where it happened in my opinion needs to be called out. This whole blame the intern bullshit is getting tiring.
Owner is always “dindu nuffin mate” tho
At the end of the day we sill have a dead person and state resources wasted, just losing all around.
It’s just baffling that even “fake guns” are so dangerous.
They’re not fake guns; they’re real guns with what was supposed to be fake ammo. Because the gun in question was a revolver, the ammo must also look real since you can see the tips of the bullets in the cylinder. Typically, there’s a hole in the side of the casing indicating that it’s a dummy round, but you can no longer see that once it’s been loaded into the gun.
Because the gun in question was a revolver, the ammo must also look real
I have seen so much bad science, like basic physics mistakes, in movies that that’s not really true. The average movie goer isn’t going to know what the difference between a fake and real revolver by sight.
Americans may not know our basic physics, but we know our guns you know.
That’s not the point. If you’re swinging around a semi-automatic pistol with an empty magazine, nobody will know. However, with a revolver, you need to load it with real-looking bullets for close-up shots. Of course, at a distance, you can use lesser-quality prop guns.
Or you can create, from scratch, purpose built guns with the same spec, but are made of materials(like aluminum) that the holder will know is fake from the moment they pick it up. For larger pieces, you could include a co2 mechanism to recreate recoil and include an LED to light up with a trigger pull for sfx people to use as a reference. Pretty sure some of these things already exist.
And quite frankly, the audience doesn’t deserve a perfect recreation if it means putting people in harms way. There’s a thing call Suspension of Disbelief that seems to be in short supply these days. Never bring the CinemaSins guy to a traditional Japanese theater. The Kuroko stagehands would give him an hearth attack.
Your comment baffles me further more. I just can’t believe your gun “culture”.
Whether or not you believe what you’re calling “gun culture,” the fact that the gun in question is a revolver is one of the most relevant facts of the case.
A semi-automatic pistol, which is to say a
single-handfirearm that is meant to be fired without being steadied against the user’s body where the ammunition is fed up the handle into to back of the barrel after each shot, until the magazine is exhausted, will not load the next round if you fire a blank. It relies on there being a bullet in the barrel to contain pressure long enough to push a mechanism that pops out the old bullet case and slides the next round into the chamber. In order for a semi-auto to use blanks, you have to modify it in such a way that you can no long fire live ammunition without destroying the gun.Revolvers do not need such modification. Revolvers have a cylinder with boreholes running through it that form the chambers for the rounds. Pulling the trigger or cocking the hammer rotates the cylinder to the chamber, no pressure from the last round needed. This means that idiots on film sets can grab a revolver intended as a prop, put real live ammo in and target shoot in between takes and eventually mix up live and dummy ammo, causing people to be killed.
This means that idiots on film sets can grab a revolver intended as a prop, put real live ammo in and target shoot in between takes and eventually mix up live and dummy ammo, causing people to be killed.
I thought they were arguing that the gun that was supposed to come with fake ammo actually came with real ammo? To me it sounds like the gun supplier should be held liable?
My gun culture? What’s so baffling about it?
It is not about you, specifically. One people do not make a culture. But see, what I find baffling is that real guns are taken into movie sets, when they repeatedly have been used to kill cast and crew members since decades ago, and it is still not prohibited. School shootings, attempted assassination of presidential candidates, Wal-Mart shootings with guns sold in place, bar massacres, etc. they all come from this gun culture.
Take a look at user Thorny_Insight higly upvoted comment. While I guess I should be appreciative of its informative content, I just find violent that, without any warning, they link to a photograph of a loaded revolver pointing at the viewer’s face without realizing that is probably kind of fucked up. That’s what baffles me, like, no fucking kidding those guns are real?! A man was killed. Then they show me a photograph of a loaded revolver pointing at my face to demonstrate how real real guns look like. I hope you see my point.
That’s dumb. As an actor, I can understand it, but as the producer, he definitely bears responsibility for the actions of the crew.
Did you read WHY it was dismissed?
It was due to the actions of the police and prosecutor withholding evidence improperly.
Even if true, that’s no reason to dismiss with prejudice.
If you bring a case against someone in bad faith, you shouldn’t be able to prosecute it again when you get caught. Otherwise there’s no consequence for the state when they don’t play by the rules.
True, but the mechanism for that should be consequences for the prosecutors themselves, not bypassing justice and absolving the accused.
If it hadn’t been detected, a potentially innocent person goes to jail.
(I’m aware someone died, but the case wasn’t over yet)
Right. They should resolve the issue with the evidence and retry the case fairly.
The prosecution is an entity. They can’t bring the case again.
Not that I agree with you, but what’s your idea of the prosecutor’s consequence? A fine? Firing? Disbarment?
I hear finger-wagging under their nose is pretty effective.
Tbh, they should get disbarred as well. If playing dirty just turns into a stroke of luck for the accused and nothing more, it doesn’t really do much to stop the prosecution from doing it again. They get paid to play dirty and just move on to the next one when caught.
Exactly where I was going with my question. There would need to be steep penalties for being caught trying to undermine the process. Even if they had made an honest mistake, I feel the individuals holding the power of a prosecutor should be expected to held to a higher standard, and therefore higher consequence.
I’m not familiar with how discipline for a prosecutor works, but I assume there is some process.
ACAB?
There’s still the possibility of a civil case. You can’t put him jail but you can put him into bankruptcy.
I heard Rudy Giuliani is looking for work.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice based on the misconduct of police and prosecutors over the withholding of evidence from the defense in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust.”
“Grr I am so angry the police withheld evidence so you weren’t able to be properly charged that I’m going to make sure no one can ever charge you for it again this effectively ensuring the police and prosecutors won”
“We can’t possibly determine the truth in this circumstance because officers of the court and the law both conspired to establish a pre-determined outcome by misusing their authority and resources, so we’ll ensure that you can’t be charged again.”
Maybe cops and lawyers should play by the rules if they want the law to put people in prison.
Why would they want to play by the rules when they got a rich white man out of trouble?
This is the result cops wanted.
Well, then I guess everyone involved got what they wanted. Are you upset because things didn’t go the way they were never going to go? It was obvious from the outset that he would never step foot in prison even outside of this conspiracy to withhold evidence.
I’m angry that the legal system is a pathetic joke.
