The point is, Baldwin pointed a genuine firearm at another person and pulled the trigger.
The law doesn't care who was supposed to be responsible for whether or not the firearm was loaded or not, the law concerns itself with who was holding the firearm, who was pointing the firearm and who fired the firearm.
Baldwin is guilty of at the least involuntary manslaughter, and that is what he has been charged with.

You lawyers on the ARPF can circle jerk around the intricacies, but those are the facts of the matter and what the eventual jury will have to work with.

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The point is, Baldwin pointed a genuine firearm at another person and pulled the trigger.
The law doesn't care who was supposed to be responsible for whether or not the firearm was loaded or not, the law concerns itself with who was holding the firearm, who was pointing the firearm and who fired the firearm.
Baldwin is guilty of at the least involuntary manslaughter, and that is what he has been charged with.

You lawyers on the ARPF can circle jerk around the intricacies, but those are the facts of the matter and what the eventual jury will have to work with.

No, the point is that in order to hold Baldwin liable, the DA will have to show, per the New Mexico Supreme Court, that he had subjective knowledge of the risk or danger associated with the activity that caused the death.

Support for this statement by you declaring what the law cares about comes from where? Your ass?:

>>>The law doesn't care who was supposed to be responsible for whether or not the firearm was loaded or not, the law concerns itself with who was holding the firearm, who was pointing the firearm and who fired the firearm.<<<<

Or, is somebody talking out of his ass?

We will see.

He for DAMN sure had subjective knowledge of the risk or danger associated with the activity that caused the death.
If not, why they hell have an armorer on set?

He also knew for sure that some of the firearms on set were real and not non firing replicas because they did live fire practice with those guns.

He also knew that seasoned film making veterans quit his production specifically because the gun handling on site was seen to be dangerous.

He also knew well the industry SOP of handling firearms in rehearsal or in action filming and he did not follow those procedures or require those in his employ to follow those procedures.

He demonstrably knew ALL of these things before he killed Hutchinson.
The prosecutors will have zero difficulty proving all of these things.

Even if you want to give him a pass as the ignorant actor, his role as producer should sink him.

If Baldwin doesn't know guns are dangerous, then why does he want to ban them?

He knows the center be dangerous. That is why the professional armorers have full set control, or supposed to have such control. That is why these charges are indicted.
The entire production was riddled with safety violations known to the producers making this death in this manner foreseeable to a reasonably prudent person who possessed or should have known what Baldwin did about the production.

I think, he is going to the jury.

In short, what Pointblank says is the theory of the case as stated by the prosecutor in the jurisdiction.

WHOAH THERE!!!

Did Heym just contradict Mitchell??!!

Like I said, at least one layer wrong in every court...

The potential 5 year minimum sentence enhancement for using a firearm is interesting. If convicted for the lawful act charge, this might be a problem for the "father of the year". Going to come down to what admissible evidence of firearm safety issues where going on during the production. Of course if he takes the stand and demonstrates what an ass he is, all bets are off. He and Trump have this same personality problem.

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Of course if he takes the stand and demonstrates what an ass he is, all bets are off. He and Trump have this same personality problem.

That is as true a statement as I've heard on the matter.

Baldwin definitely has a personality disorder but it has been mitigated for years by the left leaning entertainment industry.
He's had a pass for years and now, his avarice for rules and conformity have caught up with him.
One glaring difference is, he killed someone. Trump, as far as we know, hasn't.