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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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I would think Baldwin absolutely went against the advice of his (most-likely very expensive) counsel by talking. What that tells me is Baldwin doesn’t quite get the notion that he is not ‘special’, that the law applies to him just like everybody else (supposedly).
Maybe he gets it now. If he doesn’t take a plea, you can be sure he still doesn’t get it. With him, it’s likely he still doesn’t.