New Mexico prosecutors say they knew early on that they’d charge Alec Baldwin over the deadly on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — as they also firmly dismissed his claim that he didn’t pull the trigger.
“We felt very confident that it was going to be a criminal case pretty close to the beginning, once we started looking at everything,” special prosecutor Andrea Reeb told NBC News of the manslaughter charges announced Thursday.
She felt Baldwin, 64, was equally as culpable as the gun experts on the New Mexico set because he was the producer of “Rust” and “an actor who’s probably starred in 40-plus gun movies.” …
“He understands what the proper protocol is for safety, and he was just disregarding that,” Reeb maintained.
[Prosecutors took their time and built their case before charging, for obvious reasons. Baldwin’s repeated public statements in the media and on social media platforms likely played right into their hands, which is why lawyers tell their clients to shut up. If you want more discussion of this, watch today’s Amiable Skeptics episode with Adam Baldwin. — Ed]
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