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Certainly didn't endear her to the judge when she was quoted from her jailhouse conversations that was more concerned about her "modeling career" than what she had done

Yes, because they couldn't prove where the live round came from - hence the lighter sentence than she would have gotten if they could prove chain of custody. That's what I meant

Nope. NO evidence of intent at all. Just incompetence on the part of the Armorer who is now jailed. Negligence wouldn't make for a very interesting episode at all

Proper justice. If anything, she got away too lightly with 18 months

A just verdict for all the reasons I've mentioned in this thread.

Absolutely. I've heard stories first hand. Halls had a Very Smart lawyer who copped a plea before the investigation was even completed!

"Assistant" Director to be accurate. He already plead out

The real trial is now. The Armorer

Read my other comments here. It's not on the actor, it's on the armorer. And, I've been there myself.

It's all noise. It's on the Armorer.

As I've said here prior - just more evidence why the Armorer is first and foremost responsible.

EVERY industry has protocols. That's why there is such a thing as expert testimony. You may believe what you want to believe, but, there is a reason folks who actually know the procedures (including, as i noted and stress now - LEGAL experts with no connection to "Hollywood" - feel the same way)

I've been doing this for over three decades. That simply isn't set protocol. There's a reason virtually everybody in the know (including the legal profession, not just "Hollywood" types) believes it was always a wrongful indictment.

Simply not fair - nor true. As an armorer myself, I have found almost universal support for Baldwin amongst professionals who work within the industry. It's not on the actor it's on the armorer, the assistant director and others on the crew to make sure these accidents don't happen. The actor...

As an armorer myself - it's on the armorer

If you read the most recent update, the Armorer's charges have NOT been dropped - which is as it should be: "Despite reports earlier in the day that former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed would also see her charges dropped, her status has not changed. “Charges against Hannah Gutierrez-Reed...

As I have written prior, Baldwin the actor isn't at fault here. It's all on the Weapons Handler.

For this particular shot, dummy rounds were in order. If the gun is fully empty and pointed at camera, it can be seen that there is nothing in the chamber. The key here is that the dummy rounds be fully checked - each and every round. One by one. It is demonstrated in the video by the...

--- It is a contradiction, but, it's all coming from the Special Effects co-ordinator here. -- All the other stories I've read do state that the Armorer wasn't physically on set. -- Also, it is not unusual for a gun to be "loaded' off set. However, said gun should ALWAYS be clearly opened...

A Prop Master is the head of the whole department. They are responsible for hiring the armorer. On a lot of low budget films, the "armorer" is the Prop Master themselves since they don't have the budget to hire a stand-alone Armorer. In this case, she hired Gutierrez to be the Armorer who was...

That's the article I posted yesterday.

This is the best unbiased article I've seen on the accident. I don't agree with every single word in it, but, it's informative and fair-minded. My takeaways (I have been handling guns on sets for over 3 decades): -- It does give the Armorer some plausible defense points, even if she is still...

Still missing the point that if the Prosecutor makes the point that "proper procedure" implies that actors always check for live rounds simply isn't the case with Hollywood productions. It just isn't. And, again, Baldwin had no reasonable reason to believe that there was even a dummy round in...

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. The point is that these big shootout scenes happen all the time (as no doubt Baldwin's attorneys will have witnesses for), and that it's folly for folks to believe that every actor sits down and counts out each and every bullet in such a scene...

If I'm Baldwin's defense attorney and the Prosecutor uses the line that 'Every actor is responsible to make sure every bullet in a prop gun isn't a live round...." I show this clip, and say: Inspect ALL of these Prosecutor!

As someone who has handled guns on film & TV sets for over three decades, let me be clear that I think the Armorer, Gutierrez-Reed, is the one ultimately at fault. She is very very lucky to be "only" charged with involuntary manslaughter. What she did is criminal. 1. No matter how the live...

I've worked on sets for over 3 decades. I'm sorry anybody who says that it's the actor's responsibility to check every single round in their gun has to watch this scene from T2. Anybody, really believe that Arnold and the other actors and stunt persons should have had to sit down and check...