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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,814
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Originally Posted by greglepore
Baldwin hung himself on 60 Minutes. I don't have the animus towards the man and his views that some here have, but he went on TV and claimed he never pulled the trigger. He stated that he released the hammer from a cocked or half cock and the gun discharged. ATF/FBI testing demonstrated that the gun wouldn't discharge if you did that. And AB stated directly that he was trained never to pull the trigger when aimed towards someone.
So maybe he's genuinely confused, but a competent prosecutor will argue that a) he knew it was negligent to pull trigger while pointed at someone, blanks or no; and b) he's lying about how the gun discharged, evidence of his guilty state of mind.
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Sounds like a slam dunk and he's screwed. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
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