The 'Rust' fatal shooting resembles another on-set tragedy: In 1993, Brandon Lee was accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming 'The Crow.' His co-star didn't face criminal charges.
On Thursday, prosecutors in Santa Fe, N.M., said Baldwin and another member of theNancy Gertner, a trial lawyer, retired judge and senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, told NPR that filing criminal charges, in the deaths of both Lee and Hutchinson, is often up to the acting prosecutor's discretion. She called the decision to charge Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter both"unusual" and"difficult to prove.
Gertner points to other members of the crew — including the film's armorer, who is also facing charges of involuntary manslaughter — and their handling and management of the gun before it came into Baldwin's possession."There are people along the continuum here who had direct responsibility for that gun and failed in that responsibility," she said."One way of thinking of that is, in one sense, Baldwin is the least culpable on that line.
"In other words, was the Lee case going to be on every single night on television, and on Twitter and on every major outlet?" Gertner said."Does that put pressure on prosecutors in ways that it never has before? And that could be a difference."
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