No one dies
on a movie set if someone didn’t make a mistake, so lawyers from each side will
be heavily pointing fingers.
The
prosecution is going to argue that if Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was doing her job
correctly, she would have noticed that there was a live bullet, not a dummy
round, going into the gun.
That mistake, they’ll say, was negligent and reckless.
The defence
is going to argue that there was a high chain of command on set, and
that others are responsible for the shooting.
Alec Baldwin pulled trigger, the
safety coordinator did not give her enough prep time, and an armourer should
never have more than one job (her job was part armourer, part prop assistant for
budget reasons).
Therefore, they will argue she wasn’t reckless and that it was the production company
that was reckless and Hannah is taking the fall.
But, if the
prosecution can prove that Gutierrez Reed actually brought live rounds to set,
then going to be very difficult for the defence to prove her innocence – as it was
her job to distinguish between lives, dummies and blanks.