The actor maintains his innocence and plans to fight the charge of involuntary slaughter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
The charges came nearly two weeks after she first announced that Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed would be prosecuted for what authorities have described as a pattern of criminal disregard for safety. Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed maintain their innocence and have vowed to fight the charges.
Prosecutors have said that Baldwin’s involvement as a producer and as the person who fired the gun weighed in the decision to file charges. “Mr Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set,” the statement said. “He relied on the professionals with whom he worked.”The Screen Actors Guild, the actors’ union, previously criticized the choice to prosecute Baldwin, saying that Hutchins’ death was a “preventable” tragedy but arguing it was “not a failure of duty or a criminal act on the part of any performer”.
In his lawsuit, Baldwin said that while working on camera angles with Hutchins, he pointed the gun in her direction and pulled back and released the hammer of the weapon, which discharged. Participants in the un-filmed rehearsal have given conflicting accounts of who handed the gun to Baldwin.
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