pull the hammer back, and release, the gun will also fire. and i believe that is why he is saying he didn t press the trigger. baldwin s attorney says he will fight the charges, calling the decision a miscarriage of justice. and mr. baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet on the gun or anywhere in the movie set. he relied on the professionals that assured him of the gun did not live rounds. an attorney for gutierrez reed calls the charges wrong and believes the armorer will be found not guilty by a jury, and she did not commit manslaughter. she has been emotional about the tragedy but has committed no crime. it s not clear to me that this criminal liability here, given all the circumstances. i m not seeing that. i m really looking forward to what we have to prove, because this is an aggressive charge. i m not sure they are going to have. josh campbell joins us now. as the family have halyna hutchins responded to the her surviving family members issued quite a
and she also discussed the live rounds and shootings on set, the reckless and cavalier attitude of many of the staff members of the production company. there s also another basis for liability perhaps baldwin should not have pointed the weapon at hutchins, even though he believed it was unloaded. and he said he didn t pull the trigger, but the fbi says that he did, and there s the question of whether he should ve cocked the hammer back. so whether it s one of these factors or a combination of reckless behaviour, that s what the district attorney public office will need to prove. and in terms of penalties, what are we looking at here? well, we re looking at potential years in prison for baldwin and that s why i don t think a resolution will be reached. we saw dave halls plead guilty and get a slap on the wrist with six months probation, but i don t think the attorney s office can offer any deal that baldwin and his lawyers will accept. so this case will go to trial.
trigger pull to fire it. so the slightest pressure here and it fires. what i think happened and based on some of the footage that i saw from the rehearsal is that alec was holding the gun with his finger through the trigger guard. so his finger was resting on the trigger. a gun of this type, if your gun is resting on the trigger when you pull the hammer back, the hammer will drop and fire. i think that s what happened. so i think not intentional. but, you know, deadly nonetheless. deadly because they ignored the safety procedures that were widely known. martha: that s what the d.a. is charging. there s mistruths in his statement, right? when he said he relied upon the experts, where were those experts he s relying on? hannah was his expect and she was not there. martha: let me ask you this. i understand and i expect during
loaded, and she also discussed the live rounds and shootings onset were reckless and cavalier attitude of many of the staff numbers of production happening. there s also other basis for liability perhaps baldwin should not have pointed the weapon at halyna hutchins, even though he believed it was unloaded. and he said he didn t pull the per worker, but the fbi says he did pull the trigger, and there s a question of if he cocked the hammer back. so whether it s a question of reckless behaviour, that s the district attorney public office will need to prove. in district attorney public office will need to prove. need to prove. in terms of penalties. need to prove. in terms of penalties, what need to prove. in terms of penalties, what are - need to prove. in terms of penalties, what are we - need to prove. in terms of- penalties, what are we looking at? we are looking at potential years for baldwin, that s why i don t think a resolution will be reached. he really got a slap on th
footage from the rehearsal, hi finger is through the trigger guard breaking the frame of his finger. if his finger was in the trigger gart if it s not in there, you pull the if you then press the hammer, it falls. however, if your finger is on the trigger, and you pull the hammer back, the gun will also fire. i think that s why he was saying he didn t fire it, but his finger was on constant pressure. so both things can be true, that he didn t consciously pull a trigger and then pull the hammer back and then, of course the gun fired. right, but the d.a. can say you pulled the trigger, because a bullet got fired from this gun. really it doesn t matter