Alec Baldwin Shooting

[The Grand Nudger]

Here’s an article explaining the consensus of what I’ve heard about why Alec Baldwin is unlikely to face charges:

https://www.insider.com/alec-baldwin-lik...ts-2021-10

And, for the record, here's New Mexico Statute § 30-2-5  (Bold mine)

The armourer and AD claimed that the gun was unloaded, and, in theory, would have been checked and double checked. There's no reason for Baldwin to have suspected them to be lying to him until the shot was fired. He was going to do a routine shot (in both senses of the word) that had been done in film since The Great Train Robbery in 1903. And then the gun discharged. That seems to fit well within the realm of Statute 30-2-5a.

It looks like Baldwin's only likely to get criminal charges if it turns out someone warned him that it was loaded and he did what he did despite that. Or maybe civil charges if the DP's family or the director charges them, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

There's an angle - the entire production was pretty hinky.  Everyone involved had a history of this shit and everyone was collected there pretty explicitly to cut corners and costs.  There'd been walkouts.  At some point.....it's impossible to believe it wasn't an intentional management decision.  Not the shooting - but trading a safe work environment for minor potential profit increases.  Wouldn't be criminal ....probably should be, broadly, even if it turns out not to be the case in this specific case, but wont be.  Could definitely eat into that cash they were trying to make in settlements.

Which, honestly, is the least they could do for those peoples survivors regardless of their culpability. I won't hold my breath waiting for people to do right with money when they have legal recourse not to, ofc.