chancery wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 9:36 pm
I've read the expedited motion, but I'm still confused about who Seth Kenney and Teske are and how they relate to Rust and to the principal participants.
But (and putting aside the possibility that the prosecutor needs to consider a new career) ...
In what world does someone who knows something about firearms and movie-making think that it would be fine to deliver some ammunition -- including _live_ ammunition -- directly to a production set?
And in what world does a retired police officer and justice of the peace think it's fine to hold on to bullets relevant to a homicide prosecution in which death was caused by shooting until after the first and principal defendant's trial was concluded?
The police never took seriously any attempt to discover where the live ammo came from. Prior to Hannah's trial I was 50/50 on whether Hannah had comingled live rounds that she had in her own possession prior to receiving any ammo from Seth Keeney, or whether the live rounds in fact came from Seth Kenney.
Evidence that came in during Hannah's trial had me about 30/70 whether Hannah or Seth Keeney had put those live rounds into the box of dummies.
Now I believe 2%/98% as to Hannah/Seth Kenney.
There is incontrovertible evidence that Sarah Zachary and Seth Kenney were looking for ways to get Hannah fired from the job after Seth was the one responsible for her being hired in the first place. This whole thing went off the rails the moment the director of this movie reneged on his responsibility to hire an ADULT prop master. It is the director that chooses the department heads. The department heads then choose the people who will work under them. Yes, TECHNICALLY Sarah Zachary is "an adult", But only technically. But Sousa didn't hire her. Instead, he reached out to Seth Kenney to recommend a prop master. The prop mater becomes the supervisor of the armorer. So, Seth Kenney recommended Sarah as prop master and Hannah as armorer. Ultimately, the LINE producer is the HR department on a movie set. Not Alec Baldwin. The Line Producer. She testified that she did have concerns about the age of the prop master and armorer, she voiced those concerns, but ultimately as long as the background check and reference checks come back clean she is not able to go back and say "I refuse to hire these people based on their age". That is age discrimination.
Because Sarah was so young, she had no actual command and behaved more like a teenager on this set. When she had her misfire, she should have been fired. But the 1st Assistant Director buried that fact since no producer or director witnesses or knew about it. Hannah mentioned it to Seth that we are obligated to tell the producers this happened. There are text messages verifying this, it was not a verbal conversation so this is absolutely verified. After that, Seth and Sarah texted each other about getting rid of Hannah, but wanted it to happen in a way that didn't involve either of them directly so they could pretend like they were not involved and were sorry she lost her job. They started doing things to stress her out, created a hostile work environment, etc. It seemed like they were trying to make it miserable enough that she would just quit.
As to the live rounds - this is what Friday showed - That Seth Kenney was the very likely source of those rounds. He had somewhere around 18 or 19 of those rounds when he went out of town with Thell and Teske. Thell, Teske, and Kenney each took about 6 of them. Thell Reed and Teske tried to give each of their 6 to investigators early in the investigation. Because Thell is Reed's adopted father and he knew they would disregard his, so he was hesitant to leave them with investigators without getting paperwrk, photos, etc them up, when they wouldn't take it seriously he kept his. Teske kept his also, until the incident where he did turn them over to the police. They are an exact match of the one that killed Hutchins and wounded Sousa and exactly the match the remaining live rounds that were found in that box that Sarah brought back from PDQ (Seth Kenney's ammo supply business) to the set.
The prosecution is trying to pretend that since Teske's and Reed's live rounds "never left a certain place, they are irrelevant". But that isn't the point. The point is that all of those rounds originally came from PDQ, they split the leftovers between them, and the ones that are accounted for are the ones that Reed and Teske still had AFTER 6 of the exact same kind were found in the ammo box on the set of Rust after one just like those 6 killed someone.
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