Alec Baldwin

[Mottie]

What do we think about the verdict regarding Alec Baldwin?

Personally I always believed that actors were always to be given 'safe' props, such as dummy knives, fake swords, blunt scissors, etc.

Surely someone in charge of the props hasn't done their job properly?

Case dismissed with prejudice. Apparently the prosecution hid evidence that the company supplying the 'blanks' supplied a box containing both live and blank rounds. Looks like the convicted armourer will be getting a retrial too.

Alec Baldwin's Rust manslaughter case dismissed

The actor weeps as the trial collapses with a prosecutor quitting amid a row over a batch of bullets.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[JonathanM]

Case dismissed with prejudice. Apparently the prosecution hid evidence that the company supplying the 'blanks' supplied a box containing both live and blank rounds. Looks like the convicted armourer will be getting a retrial too.

I'm finding it very confusing. Apparently, it is still not known how the live rounds got on to the set of the Alec Baldwin film. It looks like a retired police officer (Troy Teske), who is a friend of both the jailed armourer's father (Thell Reed) and the prop supplier who supplied the 'blanks' (Seth Kenney), was previously working with Kenney on two other film sets using some live rounds. He claims that Kenney gathered up some of the spare live rounds and took them home in a green tin. After the shooting of Halyna Hutchins, Teske took some of the rounds from that same batch to the police, so they could check whether they might match the live bullet which killed Halyna Hutchins. These are the bullets which have now caused the case to be dismissed. Because they were never tested and the defence were never told about them. The judge examined them in court and thought they were a match, but presumably only a visual match.