Dutch Merrick, a veteran entertainment industry armorer, with two kinds of cartridges often found on film sets. On the left is a blank, which produces a bang…
You know that you just don t have to pull the trigger for that firearm to discharge. pulling the hammer back will do the very same thing, depending upon the firearm. elliott, let me bring you in. here because one of the points that dutch merrick raised was a lot of onus being on the actor. and the assumptions that ought to be able to be relied upon if you have this safe space. but he is notably alec baldwin, again there is someone else, hannah guiterrez-reed also charged. and another producer who has pleaded guilty already to a different charge. but he is also being charged and factored as a producer as well. that s been a big sticking point for you. no, it is. because what they do in this probable cause statement where they lay out why they are charging over the basis for the charges, is, number one, these are all things that alec baldwin, the actor did, sort of failing in his duty as an actor and then alec baldwin as a producer, who had some responsibility for what happen
Responsibility. everyone s responsibility who handles that firearm to check, to make sure that it is either loaded or unloaded or whether it has blanks or it doesn t have blanks, and to have someone else check with you at the same time. you just want to check yourself. you check and then you show it to someone else. they check with you so it can be confirmed what the condition of the firearm. and pulling a trigger, if you have taken the course seriously, you know that if you just don t have to pull the trigger for that firearm to discharge. pulling the hammer back will do the very same thing, depending upon the firearm. elliott, we bring you in here. one point that dutch raised is the idea of a lot of onus being on the actor, and the assumptions that ought to be able to be relied upon, if you have this safe space. but he is notably alec baldwin. again, there is somebody else, hannah gutierrez-reed also charged. and another producer who has pleaded guilty already to a different charge
Forward to alternative theories for how he did it, for how he went wrong. what this comes down to and what any manslaughter cases going to come down to his called reasonableness. and you know that, laura, of course. it s why is this person s actions how does it relate to how a reasonable, quote unquote, person would have acted in those circumstances? dutch merrick had said earlier, a lot of these things are open to interpretation, like what ought to be the right way to behave on a movie set, whether as an actor or as a producer. so we will see how it all plays out. and of course he is saying he is more of a creative producer not something in the nuts and bolts. with that make a difference to the prosecutor seem to disagree with him. regardless of whether he is a creative producer and that s a thing but he was also, i think they use the term principle producer, maybe not executive producer. but he had a senior management role there. that s what they are hanging their hea