Prosecutors accused Alec Baldwin of violating 'the cardinal rules of gun safety,' while the actor's defense attorney said he 'committed no crime.'
Prosecutor Erlinda Johnson opened the states case by saying: “When someone plays make-believe with a real gun, in a real-life workplace — and while playing make-believe with that gun, violates the cardinal rules of firearm safety — people’s lives are in danger, and someone could be killed.”
Baldwin’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, called Hutchins’ death an “unspeakable tragedy” but claimed: “Alec Baldwin committed no crime. He was an actor acting, playing the role of Harland. An actor playing a character can act in ways that are lethal, that aren’t just lethal on a movie set. These cardinal rules — they’re not cardinal rules on a movie set. And I don’t have to tell you much more about this because you’ve all seen gunfights in movies.
And, Johnson said, the evidence would show that each time Baldwin handled the gun, he “did not do a safety check” with
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