Alec Baldwin involuntary manslaughter trial to begin in New Mexico.

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Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Alec Baldwin involuntary Manslaughter trial to begin in New Mexico. A New Mexico judge has ruled that actor Alec Baldwin's indictment will stand in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of his film Rust. In an order on Friday, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer turned down a motion by Baldwin’s attorneys to dismiss the indictment. Baldwin therefore remains scheduled to go on trial in July for involuntary manslaughter. Nearly three years ago, during a rehearsal for a scene in the Western movie on a ranch outside Santa Fe, Baldwin was holding the prop gun that had been loaded with live ammunition. The Colt .45 revolver went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin, who was also a producer for the film, pleaded not guilty, and has maintained he was not responsible for Hutchins' death. Shortly after the shooting, he told ABC News he had "no idea" how a live bullet got onto the set of his film, but that he "didn't pull the trigger." In March, a jury found the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent use of a firearm. She's now serving an 18-month prison sentence. The New Mexico Environment Department's Occupational Health and Safety Bureau issued a citation against Rust Movie Productions and fined them for failures that led to Hutchins' "avoidable death."

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories. I'm your host,
0:16.0	retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:22.8	So folks, been off the air a little bit, take a little break, R&R.
0:27.7	They call it on flying to Florida this afternoon.
0:30.5	But we'll be right on the air this evening with another show.
0:33.6	And I just want to sort of do an introductory show today to show that we are back and we
0:39.5	do miss you guys. You know, the case of Alec Baldwin, the involuntary Minnesota trial is set to begin.
0:50.7	And as we know, this has been sort of a long time coming. However, the armorer, a woman named Hannah Gattirez-Reed, we see on the screen right now, she has previously gone to trial on this case and gotten convicted and she's currently in prison. I believe her
1:14.0	sentence was 18 months. So the death of Helena Hutchins obviously hit everyone really in the
1:25.0	heart, very tough case, even though I think we all realize that no one did this on purpose.
1:33.3	This was accidental, absolutely accidental. However, within the law, there is things that cover
1:42.8	accidental deaths, and part of it can be viewed as as negligence, criminal negligence, gross negligence.
1:50.0	And no matter what way you slice it, this woman on the screen, Helena Hutchins, lost her life.
1:59.0	And, you know, there's so many issues to this case. How did the one that
2:04.5	everyone keeps mentioning, how did a live round wind up in what everyone described as a prop
2:12.2	gun. However, a prop gun that can fire live ammo is not a prop gun. It's a real gun that's capable of firing
2:20.3	a projectile, which is capable of killing a human being, which in fact, it did do in this case of
2:27.5	Helena Hutchins. And then of course the director, David Sousa, who you see on the screen right now, his, he was hit in the shoulder
2:38.7	by the same round that passed through the chest of Helena Hutchins, exited her back,
2:45.8	and hit him in the shoulder. So a great deal of examination of this Rust movie set has taken place by investigators,
2:56.6	by the media, by civil lawsuits, by private investigators. And even though Alec Baldwin and his attorneys have tried to have the charges
3:11.6	dropped in this case, it is going to go forward. Absolutely going to go forward. And I believe
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