Special Prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson of Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' case has revealed why she decided to resign from the case before it was dismissed by a judge on Friday in a statement to PEOPLE.
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Ocampo Johnson told NewsNation after the dismissal that she herself "learned about this evidence when the public learned about it yesterday, late afternoon." She also said that she was "not involved in the Hannah Gutierrez case at all" and "was not aware that this individual had taken this ammunition to the sheriff's department and provided it to the officers."
While Ocampo Johnson resigned from the case, she told Cuomo that based on her "evaluation of the evidence that I was privy to," citing clips from theset, Baldwin did "engage in some horseplay with this gun." She cited an interview by investigators in which someone claimed he "allowed Mr. Baldwin to use him kind of as a target to shoot blanks at him."
"You don't use another person as a target, as a human target, so that could potentially be reckless," she said. "And so, you know, he wasn't charged with intentional homicide. There's no question for me, there's no question Mr. Baldwin did not intend to do this. But the question is, was there wanton and recklessness and so that's why I did believe in the case. I had no idea that this other evidence had not been turned over.
“I don’t think it was intentional," she added of the evidence mix-up. "I really do not believe that. I think it was just something that — it wasn’t turned over, and it should have been.”Alec Baldwin’s Wife Hilaria ‘Has Faith’ He Will Be Found Not Guilty at End of ‘Stressful’ Trial Alec Baldwin’s Wife Hilaria, with Tears in Her Eyes, Hugs Him After His Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Case
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