Baldwin Charging Affidavit

The probable cause statement for Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter charges is available.

For those with an unfortunate interest in law, it’s very interesting. For those convinced that Baldwin shouldn’t have been charged because he’s just a stupid actor, and you can’t expect actors to show any sense, and the Four Rules aren’t law…

…it will be infuriating.

In Baldwin’s case: They have video and photos of him fingering the trigger. He skipped safety training. When the armorer roped him into training, he spent the whole time on the phone.

A forensic report that says the handgun was functioning correctly. The trigger had to be pulled.

Baldwin changing his story.

The document describes film industry standards and protocols, and describes how Baldwin — as the primary producer — actively and willfully blew them off.

The Four Rules? I had said

Aesop might as well claim that Baldwin shouldn’t be charged because § 30-2-3 doesn’t specifically say not to point a load gun at people and pull the trigger when you don’t even know if it’s loaded. Those words aren’t there either.

“Without due caution and circumspection” are, and the Rules illustrate what due caution and circumspection look like.

The probable cause statement — using different phrasing — says precisely that. Because…

One more time; if I were the prosecutor, I’d present clips from interviews, and social media post of Baldwin telling everyone else how to do it right, and ask him, “Mr. Baldwin, for years you’ve claimed you know better on firearm safety than everyone else. Why are you now claiming to be dumber than a six year-old in need of constant adult supervision?”

And that’s exactly what the prosecution has done in the probable cause statement: You know this stuff. Why didn’t you do it?

Negligence is when you know better, but do it anyway. This document establishes that Baldwin did it, should have known better, and has repeatedly claimed to know better.

On the armorer front, Gutierrez-Reed will need to do some serious explaining. Per the statement, law enforcement found — this is addition to the expended round used to kill Hutchins — six live rounds on set. Including a live round on Baldwin’s holster.

And forensics indicates those live rounds did not come from the movie’s supplier as she had once tried to imply.

So, little miss armorer, why were live rounds on set at all, and where did they come from? Why did you never notice live rounds mixed in with your equipment?

I recall early claims that she had been letting people use prop guns for recreational plinking. I think those claims just became a lot more credible.

 

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2 thoughts on “Baldwin Charging Affidavit”

  1. I have not discussed the case against Ms. Gutierrez-Reed, since I have always figured that hers was basically a slam dunk, and she would seek some kind of plea bargain, in order to keep from going to jail. I actually have seen something sort of similar in the past, with the person in the middle going to jail, at least for a time. In this case, the middle man was also the ringleader, and he got the life sentence, so they got a life term, due to a mandatory sentencing rule. He was not there, but his two buddies who had already gotten life each were already up the river for life, so they both flipped on him, and he was screwed. Some friends.

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