Quote:It's taken a while, but actor Alec Baldwin is finally on trial this week for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the movie set Rust.

Earlier in the week, we reported on some of the motions that were decided in the matter including the judge's decision that Baldwin being a co-producer wasn't relevant to the case. That was a big win for Baldwin in the case since that could go to further knowledge of safety issues on the set.

But during the trial on Thursday, there was a truly wild moment from Baldwin. The prosecutor was reading some embarrassing things he said to a detective in the court and talking about his motivation to lie. Baldwin in the remarks was upbraiding the detective saying the detective lived a very "narrow life." The video showed Baldwin sitting there, rocking back and forth and obviously fuming. Watch what happens next and the reaction of his attorney.

He just gets up and walks out, and his attorney's stunned reaction is priceless as he tries to figure out what's going on.

Stalking out tends not to be a good look when you're on trial. No, you can't just get up and leave whenever you feel like it when you are on trial. If he had an emergency, he should have asked his attorney to ask for a recess.

Fortunately for him, the jury was out at that moment in the trial so they didn't see him behave like an idiot.

The armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed is supposed to testify on Friday for the prosecution.

Meanwhile, people have noticed Baldwin has had his family there.

According to Court TV's Matt Johnson Baldwin and his wife have an upcoming reality show and they are shooting it in the town while the trial is on.

"The optics make him look like a family man, an everyday person and also someone who wants to convey that they're innocent," Johnson tells Inside Edition. "He is shooting a reality show here, one can only think this is going to be one of those episodes."

How gross can you get? Again, not a good look.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Hutchins' mom and sister, ripped the actor for announcing the TV project ahead of the trial and questioned whether he and his wife were trying to promote the new venture with their public appearances in Santa Fe.

"It appears to me to be a very cynical, calculated public relations move to possibly have an impact on the jury or the jury pool, to try to get sympathy for Alec Baldwin, and that’s why he not only brought his baby but allowed his baby to be taken from the car and photographed," she said.

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Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

(07-12-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

Well played.

He could share a cell with Clinton and Biden, and many others.

(07-12-2024 03:22 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

Well played.

He could share a cell with Clinton and Biden, and many others.

As they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely

Man, I got to go to Unholywood and get special privileges. If he can do that and nothing happens for it then they do have special powers like Superman. LOL

(07-12-2024 03:24 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:22 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

Well played.

He could share a cell with Clinton and Biden, and many others.

As they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely

Clinton, Biden nor Alec Baldwin ever lowered my taxes.

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If the owner of a car rental wanted to save money and hired a kid out of college that took two weeks of auto classes in high school as his training. Then you find out that two or three times the brakes failed with in 3 weeks because the person they hired didn't know how to bleed the brakes.....

then the owner takes one of the cars a few days after the brakes failed two other times. He then hits and kills someone walking legally across the street because the brakes failed. You think that's just a accident and they holds no criminal responsibility?

He pointed a gun at someone and pulled the trigger without checking it. He did this with 2 or 3 other times a live round went off. So at that point not only are you criminally responsible just for doing that. But also because you tried to cut cost hiring someone that didn't have the ability to do a job that can get people killed. By the time of your actions....you knew the danger was there.

I have not followed the case, but has it ever been proven who — exactly — brought live ammunition onto the set, and why?

If you have a gun in your hand, you are responsible for whatever happens.

Prosecution screwed this one up. Cased dismissed with prejudice because they did not disclose evidence properly. Baldwin walks. Cue the whining.

Judge and prosecutor will both get large campaign contributions when it's re-election time.

Has to make it through appeal and I will bet it doesn't. Baldwin was not charged with bringing live rounds to the set so this played a minor role, if any part in the charges.

BREAKING: Judge Grants Motion to Dismiss in Alec Baldwin 'Rust' Case

Quote:In a sudden turn of events in the "Rust" involuntary manslaughter case on the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, the judge has agreed with a motion filed by actor-producer Alec Baldwin's legal team to dismiss the charges. Earlier on Friday, we wrote about Baldwin's antics during part of the proceedings, when he stormed out of the courtroom.

But now, it's over.

via the NYT:

A judge in New Mexico dismissed the case against Alec Baldwin on Friday after finding that the state had withheld evidence that could have shed light on how live rounds got onto a film set where the cinematographer was fatally shot.

The dismissal was with prejudice, meaning that the manslaughter prosecution of Mr. Baldwin is over. Mr. Baldwin had faced up to 18 months in prison if he had been convicted.

“There is no way for the court to right this wrong,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said in court as Mr. Baldwin wept.

Here was the defense's persuasive argument:

Lawyers for Mr. Baldwin called for the case to be dismissed, accusing the state of failing to disclose that it had been given a batch of rounds said to be connected to the case when the defense asked to review all the ballistic evidence.

“They buried it,” Luke Nikas, a lawyer for Mr. Baldwin, said in court on the third day of the trial. “They put it under a different case with a different number.”

The failure to disclose the new evidence posed a major legal problem because the state is required to turn over key evidence like this to the defense.

We previously wrote about Baldwin seeking a motion to dismiss before the trial began in July. That filing, in late May, was rejected.

(07-12-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

Good Lord dude. Give that $hit a fvcking rest.

Baldwin didn’t intentionally kill the lady nor did he intentionally even fire the weapon. It was an unfortunate accident. A tragedy.
The case needed to be thrown out. Glad it was.

(07-12-2024 06:18 PM)450bench Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

Good Lord dude. Give that $hit a fvcking rest.

Baldwin didn’t intentionally kill the lady nor did he intentionally even fire the weapon. It was an unfortunate accident. A tragedy.
The case needed to be thrown out. Glad it was.

Care to explain the bold? That gun did not go off by itself, someone pulled the trigger.

(07-12-2024 06:18 PM)450bench Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:09 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(07-12-2024 03:03 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Alec Baldwin is a horse's rear end but I don't think he's guilty of any crime here.

Now if they put him in jail for being a jacka$$... I'm good with that.

If that were the criteria then Trump would be on death row.

Good Lord dude. Give that $hit a fvcking rest.

Baldwin didn’t intentionally kill the lady nor did he intentionally even fire the weapon. It was an unfortunate accident. A tragedy.
The case needed to be thrown out. Glad it was.

I thought it was board rules that only Dems could not take a joke? Lighten up, Francis.

Any of us would be in jail. He violated every gun rule there is.

Well, civil case is next so Baldwin isn't off the hook entirely yet.

He will lose the civil case.