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In late October, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed when a hot gun went off on the set of Alec Baldwin's movie Rust. Five errors led to a catastrophe that's shaken the film industry—and sent the district attorney on a quest to find answers
Feeling pretty good about going to a jury defending alec baldwin. >> yeah, and what the prosecutors are saying is that alec baldwin is the last link in that chain of command and that he had a responsibility ultimately at the end to make sure the gun was safe. you can read interviews yesterday, and i talked to people who said that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how a movie set works. a professional whose job it is to load and tell the actor, this is a cold gun. that's the armorer's job, not the actor's job. what did you make of those comments, danny, from the prosecutors who said at the en...
Baldwin and hannah gutierrez-reed are facing two counts of manslaughter. >> her attorney said a jury will find her not guilty but she has commit nod crime. josh campbell for us this morning. you spoke to the da moments after the announcement was made. what did she say? >> reporter: she said that this all comes down in her view to negligence. i asked her if there was one piece of evidence that sealed it for her, that made that determination in her mind this had to be prosecuted. she said, no, this came down to looking at the totality of the circumstances by included in her view a pattern on tha...
They're going to get a firearms expert, a stunt expert and prop expert. they need one or two persuasive people to tell the jury, this is not how it works. actors are permitted to believe when they're handed a cold gun, it is a cold gun. we're here on a kind of film settle, right? there's a camera over there on a boom. have you ever gone over to check that, hey that, could be a dangerous item, you know what, i'm going to check right now. >> but you're not handling that camera. >> exactly. that's true. but when you're handed a gun and everybody on set tells you that it's safe. you have a right t...
New mexico to quantico, virginia, the fbi laboratory and the fbi looked at that gun and assessed that there is no way it could have gone off without alec baldwin actually pulling that trigger. there has been this question from respected legal experts who have been opining that this will be an uphill battle for prosecutors. this is certainly not a slam dunk case. the question is if an actor is handed a weapon by someone on set and they are told that that weapon is empty, is there liability on the part of the actor? again, we have heard legal experts say that that is going to be an uphill battle...