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Alec Baldwin is under fire for alleged recklessness and ignorance pertaining to firearms safety following his indictment on involuntary manslaughter charges.
You, too, then, steve, about the first assistant director, dave hall, then pleading, i mean, cooperating with the district attorney? >> i guess, one, he's not a team player. he's looking out for himself. >> does it say he has some kind of incriminating information? do you believe that he has, you know, some incriminating information that he felt he need t needed to divulge to help solidify an involuntary manslaughter charge against alec baldwin and at the same time save himself? >> well, the plea made the most sense for him because he's the guy who yelled "fire" in the movie theater, right? he...
I mean, steve pretty much just laid out the prosecution's case with the negligence rising to the level of criminal culpability. they'll point out things like alec baldwin's experience just as steve did. the problem for prosecution, though, isn't that. it's they have to convince a jury that baldwin committed this crime, and that's when reasonable doubt creeps in and reasonable doubt here is going to be issues like why did the live ammo end up on the set, why did the assistant director who got a better deal get to have the better deal when he's the one who announced cold gun even though he wasn'...
A level above a civil case's jurisdiction, that it's really criminal in nature. and that is in my opinion a steep climb in this case. you'll see that sometimes with drunk driving type of charges, someone is being grossly negligent. they know they're doing something very dangerous. i think the challenge for the prosecution is they'll have an extended civil case going on and there's already been a civil settlement. i was struck by nick's reporting remembering the tragedy with brandon lee. in that case, that actor was actually pointing the gun at brandon because that's what the scene called for. ...
Teach you how it works. alec said, no, i'm good, and never made time to do it safely. >> how do you know that? >> if we wanted him to do rocket surgery or something, okay, bring in an expert. but basic firearms safety is not beyond the scope of a reasonable expectation for any actor. you can remember 120 lines of script, you can remember 4 basic safety rules. >> steve, how do you know that in terms of alec saying, no, i'm okay, i got it? >> this is in the transcript from hannah's deposition, which, you know -- so i'm not, you know, validating the veracity of the statement. >> okay. >> but it w...