BBC News - Alec Baldwin may be recharged with Rust gun death because of ‘additional facts’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67141319
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I really don’t understand how they can get him for anything in relation to handling the gun. None of the safety stuff is the actor’s job.
Now since he was one of the head honchos on the picture they could go after him for negligence there, but the whole “pull the trigger” thing is weird to me. Actors do that on set all the time while pointing weapons they’ve been given at crew. It’s part of making movies.
It seems like there are a lot of people who took a course and now consider themselves experts on gun safety. They don’t seem to understand that movies use completely different safety rules, because when they make a movie they have to break all the normal rules. Or maybe they’re just being deliberately obtuse because they hate Baldwin for his politics.
The actor said at the time that he drew back the hammer on the pistol, but did not pull the trigger.
Charges were dropped […] after it was reported that the .45 Colt revolver had been modified with a new trigger in a way that could have made a misfire more likely.
Experts […] concluded there was no way for the gun to have been fired without the trigger being pulled.
Wouldn’t that be double jeopardy? Or no because he wasn’t tried? Genuine question… I don’t know a lot of the details.
I think what you’re saying is correct in terms of him not being tried. You can’t be tried for the same crime twice.
He hasn’t been tried yet. The initial charges were dismissed before trial started. Those details were in the article.
Additional - alternative facts.
