Baldwin has claimed the gun fired accidentally after he followed instructions to point it toward Hutchins, who was behind the camera.
The lead detective in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film " Rust " is likely to be on the stand for most of Friday at Alec Baldwin 's involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico, as prosecutors try to cast the movie star as a reckless cavalier with a gun in his hand and the defense seeks to portray him as a working actor just doing his job.
Before Hancock took the stand, Italian gunmaker Alessandro Pietta testified Thursday about quality control in the manufacturing process for the gun eventually acquired by an Albuquerque-based gun and ammunition supplier to "Rust" and handled by Baldwin in the fatal shooting. It was shipped in 2017, and Pietta last examined the gun in 2018 through a sales and distribution company.
Both Pietta and a sales distributor who handled the gun as recently as September 2021 testified that the revolver was in good working order and had not been modified."If you want to release the hammer you have to pull the trigger," he told the courtroom. Spiro asked Poppell whether the "good Samaritan" had brought the ammunition into the sheriff's department, and she said he had and she had written a report on it, denying that she had "buried it" to keep it from the defense.
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