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It's been long ago proven they started out cheap and went even cheaper as the production wore on. It was a notorious production among NM crew types before the shooting.Well, they are past the grand jury phase if they've filed.
Curious about the armorer, if the producers went "cheap" (Baldwin is listed as a producer) and if protocols for actors and armorers were followed.
Don't mess with her, hombre. She talks tough!This feels like one of those "I've got to protect my phoney-baloney job" DA decisions where they go ahead and file charges against everyone involved but hope the grand jury either returns a no bill to indict or they can plea bargain something with Baldwin's attorney as a slap on the wrist. Fine and community service perhaps.
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Accident that results in a death does not equal involuntary manslaughter; that requires something more, gross negligence, e.g. driving while impaired with prescription drugs or shooting a gun while untrained.
When I gave the gun example I wasn't talking about this situation, I meant where some person just randomly buys a pistol, loads it, and then aims it and shoots without any training and without taking into consideration that he/she's on a street or that people are nearby. Sheer stupidity, not this situation where assuming everything was done reasonably and there was a purpose to shooting the gun, making a movie. For example, the Brandon Lee death I don't think was found to be criminal, it was an unfortunate accident.In virtually every hunting accident someone willfully fires a gun they know to be loaded. Yet I don't think many of the shooters in those cases get indicted. I am sure Baldwin did not realize the gun was loaded. There have been lots of movies made on the cheap where guns were used and no actual bullets were fired. There was some one hired on the set to check these things. It does not take a genius to do that job.