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Alec Baldwin’s Lawyer Plays Footage From Rust During Opening Statements
Alec Baldwin “played make-believe with a real gun and violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety,” the prosecution alleged.
Alec Baldwin “played make-believe with a real gun and violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety,” the prosecution alleged during opening statements in his Santa Fe, New Mexico, trial for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal Rust set shooting. In her opening statement, prosecutor Erlinda Johnson painted Baldwin, who starred in and produced the film, as cavalier with firearms and suggested that the cast and crew faced constraints, ramping up the risk of someone getting injured on set. David Halls — who pleaded no contest to negligent use of a deadly weapon and was given a six-month suspended sentence — testified at Gutierrez-Reed’s trial and claimed that she had given Baldwin the gun.
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