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Alec Baldwin’s Defense Concedes He May Have Pulled Trigger on ‘Rust’ Set: ‘That Doesn’t Make Him Guilty’
Alec Baldwin's lawyer, Alex Spiro, said Wednesday that even if he did pull the trigger, he still wouldn't be guilty of manslaughter.
He called the issue a “shiny object,” meant to distract from the key fact that the gun would have been harmless had it not been loaded with a real bullet — a grave violation of film industry safety standards. Spiro’s tactical approach is in marked contrast to the defense in the trial of Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the “Rust” armorer who loaded the live round into Baldwin’s gun. In both his opening and closing arguments, Bowles focused on the state’s burden to prove its case, and did not concede any potential wrongdoing or fault on Gutierrez Reed’s part.
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