Alec Baldwin cops a walk

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Said it at the beginning and I'll say it again: Alec Baldwin should NEVER have been charged criminally-Period. End of story. Full disclosure: I don't like his politics one bit and he comes across as a pompous alpha hotel in his personal life. So what? The right person got convicted and is sitting in jail doing 18 months. The justice system worked and the DA rightly got spanked by their brady violation. Rich person perk? you betcha because the average run of the mill defendant with an overworked public defender a lot of times doesn't have the luxury of a $1000 an hour attorney looking over every minute detail to find brady violations-which by the way happen a LOT more frequently than the DA's would have us think. Not so much because of a "crooked" da but most of the time from a line LEO who thinks that something isn't important or decides that if the DA don't know-he can't turn it over and in any event disclosure would hurt the case. This by the way drives the DA's wild.
42 years doing criminal defense will not allow me to disregard these truths I have seen time and time again.
If it pisses anyone off-sorry.......hey look-a squirrel.

 

[S-W4EVER]

Said it at the beginning and I'll say it again: Alec Baldwin should NEVER have been charged criminally-Period. End of story. Full disclosure: I don't like his politics one bit and he comes across as a pompous alpha hotel in his personal life. So what? The right person got convicted and is sitting in jail doing 18 months. The justice system worked and the DA rightly got spanked by their brady violation. Rich person perk? you betcha because the average run of the mill defendant with an overworked public defender a lot of times doesn't have the luxury of a $1000 an hour attorney looking over every minute detail to find brady violations-which by the way happen a LOT more frequently than the DA's would have us think. Not so much because of a "crooked" da but most of the time from a line LEO who thinks that something isn't important or decides that if the DA don't know-he can't turn it over and in any event disclosure would hurt the case. This by the way drives the DA's wild.
42 years doing criminal defense will not allow me to disregard these truths I have seen time and time again.
If it pisses anyone off-sorry.......hey look-a squirrel.

Once again, this retired LEO agrees with you. While it was never my job to make the Defense’s case for them, withholding exculpatory evidence was never a part of my job. I can remember losing a few cases over the years in District Court (Misdemeanors) because in retrospect I felt the Defendant deserved a break.

 

[SMSgt]

Too many want to impose range firearm safety onto movie set requirements. Imagine going to a firing range and not being able to handle your weapon until a range officer inspects it, loads it, and places it into your holster or hands already pointed down range.

 

[notsofast]

If the jury made the decision Baldwin might have been convicted or might not have been convicted. The dismissal to me is getting off on a technicality but that too is the law. Involuntary manslaughter, again to me is accidentally killing someone, that’s what happened here, Baldwin had the gun pointed it and shot. He didn’t mean to hurt or kill but that’s what happened, involuntary manslaughter. Not only should he have checked the weapon but the person who handed it to him needed to understand his job. If either of these two do what should have been done a shooting that shouldn’t have happened wouldn’t have happened, both should be in jail.