Rust and Related Lawsuits

[Frater I*I]

What kind of dumbass doesn't know in this day and age that jailhouse calls a recorded and can come back to haunt you....

[raison de arizona]

[zekeb]

It's too bad the clueless don't always have someone telling them what is and what is not a good idea.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Her Attorney's paralegal told her during a call that these calls were recorded. Hannah seems way to self a absorbed to understand how the real world works.

[andersweinstein]

For anyone interested, NM courts created a "high profile cases" page, which has docket items for cases stemming from the Rust shooting (the only "high profile" cases so far):
https://nmcourts.gov/news/high-profile-cases/

There are now multiple motions to dismiss from Team Baldwin: one based on Grand Jury improprieties and prosecutorial misconduct; one based on destruction of evidence (the gun), and one -- which I find a philosophically interesting -- based on failure to allege an offense at all under NM law due to lack of any evidence of the requisite mens rea for involuntary manslaughter. The last requires criminal negligence = subjective awareness of creating a risk to others, per NM case law. Beyond facts in the indictment, the last also ppeals to commitments made by the state in the Guitierrez trial.

There is a hearing set for May 17, I believe to deal with the first motion to dismiss, which is fully briefed. Other motions are more recent, state's responses have not yet appeared as I post.

A little amused by the level of back and forth sniping that leads to DEFENDANT ALEC BALDWINS' MOTION TO STRIKE THE STATE'S REPLY TO THE DEFENDANTS' RESPONSE TO THE STATE'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT.

[RVInit]

The hearing for dismissal took place last week, it took a little over 2 hours. The judge said she will issue a ruling "next week", which would be this week, as I'm posting this on the Monday following the week of the hearing. I listened to most of this, it was interesting. I kind of doubt it will be dismissed, but the judge did have some questions for the prosecutor. One of the more interesting items of complaint has to do with the prosecutor paying one of their witnesses to appear on the Sean Hannity show and bash Baldwin. That seems a little sketchy to me. The prosecutor didn't even attempt to claim she did not do this, unless I missed that part. I probably missed about 10 minutes of the prosecution part of it and I haven't gone back to try to locate the exact time I missed so I can catch up. So, I guess it's possible she did address this. Another interesting thing is that she elicited certain testimony from a witness during the grand jury and used that to indict Baldwin, but then same witness testified different on same question during Hanna's trial.

This prosecutor has several narratives that just aren't true. For instance she is constantly drumming the refrain that Baldwin was in charge of everything and everybody and the proof of that is that in between two takes he was expressing irritation at the armorer for not having his second gun already loaded and ready to go for the second take. Well, I've seen coworkers complain to and about other coworkers during times of high stress, but those who were complaining were not "in charge" or supervising in any way. People will be people, and when stressed lots of people vocalize and it doesn't mean they are "in charge of everything". Of course reading the comments (bad idea) of people who are watching the trial shows they just automatically agree with that. I don't participate in comment sections on YouTube, or should say very rarely do I particpate in any comment section of YouTube, but sometimes read them out of curiosity to see what people are thinking (more often not actually thinking).