Alec Baldwin Saunters Into Court
 

Alec actually showed up in court. He has humongous financial and other resources and has a top notch and expensive legal team. Should be interesting...

Alec Baldwin '''Rust''' trial: Actor saunters into court for pretrial hearing | Fox News

About time criminal court proceedings started
 

People will argue the point but he was indicted and has culpability for a manslaughter conviction. If that happens it will show the 'Hollywood Elite' that they are not teflon.

that's a big IF there.

You have to laugh at headline writers, who have made up their minds before a case has begun.
I just watched a video of Baldwin arriving, and he, to me, just walked into the court.
But 'saunter' is so much better if you have an agenda.

Uh-oh... What a preposterous ruling!

Alec Baldwin '''Rust''' trial: Judge makes major ruling in actor'''s favor | Fox News

Does not follow that as a producer of the movie that Baldwin is responsible for gun safety on a movie set. Good ruling.


Let's have tests on whether that specific gun went off without the trigger being pulled.

Exactly correct. Well said.

I thought this was going to be a joke. You know, like "a guy goes into a bar" kind of joke.
Maybe next time.

I’m glad New Mexico has all this extra cash to burn.

I’ve worked on film/tv sets for 30 years with plenty of guns. For the gun to get handed off to an actor is the full responsibility of the Armorer. That person’s job is to lock up the gun, NEVER have live rounds on set, only blanks, but most importantly, that gun cannot leave that persons hands until both the first AD and Armorer look inside the gun to make sure nothing is stuck in there ( Brandon Lee ) which was a union rule put in place because of Brandon Lee getting shot and killed on set years ago. Once that’s done the AD will yell out “cold gun on set” I’m also curious why they’d even use a real gun for a rehearsal instead of the rubber one. But so many things went wrong on this set. First, union camera crew quit days before due to safety issues. The armorer had just been fired from a Nick Cage movie because nobody felt safe with her. She was new to the job. IMO the Line Producer is just as guilty for hiring her and non union crews on a union shoot to save money. When shows try to save money and hire less experienced people bad things happen. I worked in Atlanta for 8 years on a tv series and one of our camera assistants was killed by a train because they were told they COULD NOT shoot on a live train track but the producer/director decided to take a small crew and call it a “rehearsal” but actually filmed and my friend was killed. That director was in prison all of maybe 2 years and is still making movies. Meanwhile, I wanted to shoot a scene on a sidewalk with a parking lot in between the train tracks and was told NOT SAFE so I picked another spot.

Is the trial televised?

I checked out the background of the judge. She was appointed by former governor Bill Richardson who largely is responsible for providing incentives to get the film industry into New Mexico. She should have recused herself.

Mary Marlowe Sommer - Ballotpedia

Again. Does not follow.

So what that Richardson appointed this woman? There is no evidence that she could not be objective in this case.

pay attention
 

The union camera crew quit days before days before because of safety concerns,,, they knew something was not right,, which was that target practice was going on with live rounds during off hours.
That is the responsibility of the producer,, to have a safe set to film a movie. Do you really think Baldwin did not know there was target practice taking place on set ,, kinda loud to miss. Why did the union cam crew quit for safety?
Baldwin was negligent in the least,, or who is in charge?
Nobody?

The weapons are the responsibility of the armorer.