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No explanation from anyone about why other ammunition had anything to do with a criminal decision to not check a real live working gun, point it in the direction of another person, and pull the trigger.

I remember when Baldwin smugly tweeted "I wonder how it feels to wrongfully kill someone" after a CA cop shot someone trying to take his gun. Well Alec, now you know - and I must say it couldn't have happened to a more deserving jerk.

A man hand-delivered ammunition to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in March, following Gutierrez-Reed’s trial, which he believed could be connected to the live ammunition found on the movie set. The ammunition was cataloged into evidence as separate from Baldwin’s case, witnesses said in testimony. Kari Morrissey of the prosecution said that investigators determined that the ammunition wasn’t a match to the live rounds found on the “Rust” set based on some of its characteristics and determined that it didn’t have evidentiary value." How convenient for Baldwin!! AND FROM THAT you draw the conclusion that this nonsense would jeopardize "the safety of any conviction". You say you're in Law in Australia. Don't know how things work down there but tell me how a bunch of bullets that have no known connection to the homicide scene would be exculpatory????

An appellate court can reverse if there is an appeal.

Thank you Perry Mason. Because prosecutors are all knowing and always in agreement. 🤨

Indeed. They were trying to save every penny they could and pocket the money. They actually tried to use a $1.6 million tax incentive from the State of New Mexico for Rust to finance the settlement for the killed woman! New Mexico denied it and took the money back.

Yes, a tragedy but not even close to the level of negligence as Baldwin. Still these incidents are very rare.

Why were there even real guns with real bullets on that set to begin with? Hollywood uses prop guns or real guns with blanks and not real bullets. Or they insert the sound of a gun later when they edit the film. Alec Baldwin is an irresponsible piece of trash that wanted to play with real guns, like the moron doofus that he is, and real bullets and was shooting up the whole place.

Absolutely true. Judges don't dismiss indictments over Brady "violations" in nearly all these types of situations. They will sanction the prosecutor, tell the jury the situation or oder a new trial.

A "prop" gun cannot fire real bullets. A "real" gun can be used as a prop gun and can contain blanks or real bullets. Takes just 2 seconds to check it. Baldwin the jerk should have checked it, especially since he was firing real rounds all over the place on that set. All he knew he was wrong because his defense was that he didn't pull the trigger on that gun. Total BS! The FBI said that gun could never have fired without someone pulling the trigger.

For hundreds of years, pre-teenagers have been taught that the gun is always loaded, a reference to always assume that the gun is loaded, and number two, you never point a gun at a person, EVER, unless you are shooting to kill someone! Every state that requires a gun permit also requires a course where the same is taught. Yet, you got some people here who state there's nothing wrong with an inexperienced armorer handing you a gun and WITHOUT DOING JUST 2 SECONDS OF CHECKING IT, points it at an innocent woman and blows her away. DUH!!!!!

Definitely manslaughter/murder on the part of Baldwin. He didn't have the self discipline to learn the basics of handling a firearm, such as always assume it is loaded until the person holding it proves it isn't loaded. Never point a gun at anyone or anything you don't intend to kill. This jerk was walking around the set shooting at cars, birds, bottles, etc that people were afraid they would be killed. Nonetheless, Baldwin is a celebrity, so he is above all that. There are people in our peer group that idolize the likes of him and will go along with it is "somebody else's fault". Just Wow.

Tens of thousands of movies made and when do you hear about a gun discharging and killing an innocent person on set?????? Even cheap B movies. So the law is that it is okay to pull the trigger ON A REAL GUN and take a life as long as you didn’t load the gun yourself. Got it.

Oh, never came out about the sexual assault claims that Halyna was about to file on Baldwin.

Terrible analogy. We are not talking about a burst pipe here. Baldwin was fully aware that there was live ammunition on the site and that the staff managing the guns was ineffective and inefficient, Baldwin had an absolute responsibility to check the gun before handling it and pointing it at someone. ESPECIALLY SINCE PEOPLE WERE QUITTING THEIR JOBS ON THE SET because guns were going off left and right and they were afraid of getting killed. That should have caused Baldwin to act and take measures LIKE HIRING A COMPETENT ARMORER. Would you keep hiring Moe, Larry and Curly as plumbers for plumbing jobs?

By law, the one with a real gun in their hands are responsible for it's safe use regardless if it's for pretending or not. Baldwin by law was supposed to ensure the gun is safe because he had the gun in his hands. Would you just think it would be ok to trust someone who gave you a gun and said it's safe to point it at your loved ones and pull the trigger?????

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was NOT a weapons master. The well-qualified, trained, and experienced armorer and his crew resigned and walked off the set two days before this happened due to unsafe conditions that were Baldwin's responsibility. Guns were going off and in addition to the armorer quitting, 6 cameramen and their assistants walked off the job because of gun discharges. That was entered as evidence and text messages from these employees stated they were afraid of getting killed. Gutierrez-Reed was then put in the role even though she had no qualifications for the job. Baldwin was the executive producer and that makes him responsible for what happened on set.

The lady that was responsible for the gun on site goes to jail and the Hollywood elitist that pulled the trigger - WALKS! That's what people around here call Justice.

No matter how you cut it, it was involuntary manslaughter. Bullets or no bullets, a person died when he pointed a gun at her which no one should ever do, unless you want to kill that person. One has to question what this judge was thinking to dismiss with prejudice. One has to wonder whether a non-famous person would get the same result. Baldwin has used real guns as props in films for decades. It stretches belief that he never took a basic gun safety course. The first rule of every such course is to never assume the deadly weapon you are picking up is safe. Every time you pick up a deadly weapon you verify for yourself that it is safe.

There have been hundreds of thousands of movie scenes made with guns and no one has gotten killed. Why? Because the gun is always checked first before the Director yells action. There was no competent armorer on duty when this happend, as there should have been. Baldwin was the producer, and he was responsible for making sure there was.

It wasn't tampering with evidence. The prosecution should not have made the decision to sideline this ammunition. They should have just presented it and told how they came into possession of it, but there was no tampering. Brady "violations" are common. Rarely results in dismissal of all charges.

David DePape, an obvious mentally unbalanced person, gets 30 years in prison w/o parole. More than most killers or rapists. This jerk Baldwin walks free for killing a woman by utter negligence. Anyone who has ever taken a gun safety course knows you don't point any gun at another person unless you intend to kill them. He has no defense and the sudden appearance of some live and dummy rounds that may or may not have been on the set should not exonerate him. The judicial system is a mess.

He got off because of privilege. Brady violations rarely result in a full dismissal of a criminal case. Aiming a gun at another human being and pulling the trigger, without first checking to see if there is a bullet in the chamber, is quintessential negligence--negligent homicide.

Yes, it is and I am praying for a reversal. He is a privileged ignoramus.

That doesn't even make sense.! He was tried in a blue state and a blue county with a blue Judge and blue prosecutor.