The criminal prosecution of Alec Baldwin begins on Tuesday 7/9/24

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Troubling details soon started to emerge about the film’s set. There were two accidental firings of blank rounds before the accidental discharge that killed Hutchins, and several members of the camera crew had resigned the night before the incident, citing, among other things, safety concerns. The first assistant director, who is in charge of safety on a film set, had been fired from another movie two years earlier after an accidental gun discharge. The armorer, who maintains control of all of the film’s firearms — and there were a lot, as this was a western — was just 24 years old; she’d done the job only once before. While the Sheriff’s Department was continuing its investigation and Carmack-Altwies was considering her options, Baldwin was sinking into despair. He was grieving over having accidentally taken a young woman’s life and coming to terms with the cascading collateral damage to his own life. He was losing jobs, and to make matters worse, in early November, the lawyers representing Hutchins’s widower, Matthew — now the single parent of a 9-year-old boy — sent him a “preservation of evidence” letter, effectively putting him on notice that he was going to be party to a lawsuit. (NY Times)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories. I'm your host,
0:16.3	retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. I hope everyone has had a wonderful
0:24.0	Fourth of July weekend, Sunday, of course, coming to the end of the weekend. Most places
0:29.8	in the U.S. are pretty damn hot this weekend. I'm down south in Florida. It's a little bit hot,
0:36.9	but, you know, if you're in Florida
0:38.6	in July, what do you expect? Anyway, folks, Tuesday, the trial of at least the jury selection
0:47.0	for our Alec Baldwin is going to take place. You know, and what can we expect? What do we expect from this trial? There's a lot of
0:58.7	different things going on. You know, it's the New York Times has just published a story about
1:09.3	how did this case go so far?
1:13.1	The prosecution of Alec Baldwin begins on Tuesday, 7-924
1:16.9	in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1:20.3	So the shooting occurred, this according to New York Times,
1:22.8	at 146 p.m.
1:24.7	The day that the Bonanza Creek Ranch, a family-owned West movie set about 20 miles southeast
1:30.3	of Santa Fe that had been rented out by Rust, an independent film that Baldwin was both starring in and producing.
1:38.7	The bullet he inadvertently fired passed through the upper body of the film's cinematographer Helena Hutchins
1:44.9	enlarged near the spine of Joel Sousa, the director. Sousa was taken by ambulance to a
1:51.2	hospital in Santa Fe. Hutchins was airlifted to a trauma center in Albuquerque and died a short
1:56.8	time later. The district attorney at the time Carmack Altwees was nearing the end of a first
2:02.7	year in office. She had been an assistant district attorney specializing in violent crimes when her
2:07.9	boss made a bid for Congress. She ran to succeed him in her first foray into electoral politics
2:13.4	and won easily inheriting a jurisdiction that covers three counties, Los Alamos, Rio Ariba, and Santa Fe.
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