Baldwin case dismissed

[breamfisher]

Seems the prosecution withheld evidence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ju ... rcna161536

[GrapeApe]

Well, since the judge had already said the prosecution could not introduce any evidence related to baldwin being the producer, that pretty well set the tone.

Color me shocked, SHOCKED I say (not)

A huge liberal and democratic supporter points a gun at an innocent victim, pulls the trigger, kills her and gets away with it.
Something tells me a conservative actor wouldn't have gotten off that easy.
To be honest though, I doubt someone like Tom Selleck would be dumb enough to do that

edited to add:

The dismissal was with prejudice, meaning the involuntary manslaughter case against the actor cannot be filed again.

Of course it was

[Freezer]

IIRC, the FBI found live ammo mixed with dummy rounds on the set. The woman in charge of the firearms on this set is an unqualified, ignorant, idiot! There was a lot more on this subject and how she got her job on the set that had nothing to do with Baldwin.

This is hypothetical, Baldwin, the director, is given a "cold gun" to show how the scene is supposed to work, "Here's what I want you to do."

I saw some of the evidence, she had dummy rounds in several cartridge boxes, there was an arrow pointing to a live round mixed in with the dummy rounds. The only difference in their appearance was the live round had a silver colored primer.

Doesn't it drive you nuts to see a movie scene where someone pulls a revolver from their holster and there's no rounds in the cylinder? Or a revolver that can shoot 8 rounds without a reload? Yes, I'm a gun nut, I look and count.

Wife: "Do you always have to analyze things?"
Me: "Yea"

[Bigslug]

I'm very bothered by the fact the gun was destroyed while the case was still ongoing. That gun should have been stored in the handling agency's evidence room on the "Do not discard until all persons involved - and possibly their children - are all dead" shelf.

Filming historical stuff is going to present the prop masters with an added burden: you have to depict passably real cartridges in a cowboy's belt in a Western or hanging out the side of a Maxim on a WWI set. For anything that depicts loading a Sharps, Trapdoor, Garand, Mauser, etc..., you're going to have an editing hassle of stuffing what LOOKS like live ammo into the gun, then switch back to your blanks - - which has got to be extra fun if you're trying to edit together a reload that takes place during a debris-flinging explosion, machine gun burst, what have you. I've REALLY got to wonder what goes in to filming an action scene of a belt-fed MG sucking in rounds. And on top of all of this, you have to assume your actors are idiots.

Tracking all that will require a level of "on the ball" that clearly wasn't present on the Rust set. Unfortunately, this is often how we learn.

[Wambli Ska]

Movie magic is tricky. I love Blackhawk Down, have watched it dozens of times. There are several scenes where you see a shower of brass from the helicopters and all the brass is clearly from blanks. That has always annoyed me.