Grand Jury Indicts Alec Baldwin In Fatal Shooting Of 'Rust' Cinematographer
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Alec Baldwin
The Huffington Poster — 2 years ago(January 21, 2024 04:11 AM)
huffpost. com/entry/grand-jury-indicts-alec-baldwin-in-fatal-shooting-of-cinematographer-on-rust-movie-set_n_65aacda8e4b041f1ce65f2f3
A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor.
Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe this week, months after receiving a new analysis of the gun that was used.
Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer, but not the trigger, and the gun fired.
The analysis from experts in ballistics and forensic testing relied on replacement parts to reassemble the gun fired by Baldwin, after parts of the pistol were broken during testing by the FBI. The report examined the gun and markings it left on a spent cartridge to conclude that the trigger had to have been pulled or depressed.
The analysis led by Lucien Haag of Forensic Science Services in Arizona stated that although Baldwin repeatedly denied pulling the trigger, “given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver.”
The weapons supervisor on the movie set, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering in the case. Her trial is scheduled to begin in February.
An earlier FBI report on the agency’s analysis of the gun found that, as is common with firearms of that design, it could go off without pulling the trigger if force was applied to an uncocked hammer, such as by dropping the weapon.
The only way the testers could get it to fire was by striking the gun with a mallet while the hammer was down and resting on the cartridge, or by pulling the trigger while it was fully cocked. The gun eventually broke during testing. -
ToastedCheese — 2 years ago(January 21, 2024 09:48 AM)
It will amount to a nothing burger for Baldwin. This is all due process.
He was given a loaded gun, that was supposed to have dummies in it. Pulling back the hammer, or pulling the trigger is irrelevant. Not to mention the gun was allegedly broken by the FBI. Who put real bullets in the gun?
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