In the second generation of Stanley Baldwin’s New Mexico involuntary manslaughter trial, the verdict on Mary Marlo Sommer featured key statements from the actor in favor of the prosecution, revealing his knowledge of weapons and the impact of blanks.
Earlier, Alex Spiro questioned Santa Fe County Sheriff’s technician Marisa Poppel specifically about a search warrant granted on a prop truck following Hutchins’ death during the filming of the film “Rust” and a year A prop for its shooting was kept in the attic for a long time. ,
The questions finally ended with Spiro asking Poppel whether the police and prosecutors were “just trying to get this over with so the prosecutors could focus on Alec Baldwin?”
“No,” he replied.
Of those claims, which can be hotly disputed and rejected by the prosecution, the defense’s attention is most focused on the searches of Seth Kenny’s truck and attic. He is an Albuquerque-based ammunition and weapons provider for “Rust,” which formed a cooperative relationship with investigators in the immediate aftermath of the tragic shooting.
Spiro suggested that dating could be too similar.
Asked about the warrant served on the truck, Spiro said, “There was a witness who assisted in the search.” “A man named Seth Kenny. And not only did he help, but he was actually the one who opened the safe.”
“Yeah, he had a combination of it,” Poppel said.
Spiro requested, “Why did law enforcement wait a week to get to the prop truck?”
Poppel responded, “Search warrants need to be written.” “I’m not sure why there is a difference in time.”
Spiro replied that a warrant had been issued for church construction on the site occupied, which had been obtained in one generation.
“If you can get a search warrant done in one day for one thing why does it take seven days for something else?”
Spiro asked Poppel, who found a half-dozen live rounds at the scene, whether she was surprised not to find anyone in the truck.
“Not necessary,” she said.
“You’re getting these live rounds all over the set, right?” Spiro requested. Poppel replied of course.
“You’ll be going in a week later in the prop truck with all the ammunition, right?” Spiro requested. “And there’s not a single live round, right?”
Poppel answered “yes” to each.
The lawyer finally said, “Let me ask you something.” “Did you doubt Seth Kenny at any time?”
Poppel replied, “No.”
Kenny has no longer been accused of any wrongdoing. An email sent to his lawyer seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey sought to justify the defendant’s manner in her retrial of Popel by asking whether Alec Stanley Baldwin should have been charged with involuntary manslaughter because he fired the bullets or loaded them into his gun. , Poppel answered “no” to each.
She went straight to Kenny, and asked Poppel if he had “any proof that Seth Kenny is the source of the live rounds on ‘Rust’.” — who has already been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shootings — had brought the ammunition, which he said was given to him through his father.
The prosecution was particularly unresponsive to defense questioning of Poppel during the Gutierrez-Reed trial earlier this year about bullets brought to the sheriff’s precinct by a Good Samaritan, who said the ammunition was from that shell. The source was the one who killed Hutchins and that Kenney had betrayed the government.
Spiro said Poppel had “buried” this evidence and it was no longer shared with security in either the Stanley Baldwin case or the Gutierrez-Reed case.
Morrissey established in his study that the source of the ammunition was Troy Teske, a friend of Gutierrez-Reed’s father, and despite similarities were not the same measurements as the live rounds found on “Rust”, along with the one that killed Hutchins. .
“Do you still have the ammunition that the good Samaritan Mr. Teske, a close friend of Hannah Gutierrez’s father, brought to you after his conviction?”
Poppel replied of course.
“You can bring it here and show it to the jury and they can see for themselves that it doesn’t match the live ammunition from the set of ‘Rust’?”
Sure, the technician replied.
Spiro was asked to testify to Poppel that it could be very difficult to tell the difference between dummy rounds made to appear as onscreen ammunition, which were in the past, and live rounds. Which had become the most tragic.
This was an attempt to avoid the central statement of the prosecutors’ case: that Stanley Baldwin recklessly violated gun safety.
Hutchins passes away And the injury to director Joel Souza nearly three years ago sent a wave of damage through the film industry. Tragic arrest ends in criminal involuntary manslaughter charge against Stanley Baldwin 66 year old famous person The former host of “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live,” faces up to 18 months in prison.
His wife Hilaria Stanley Baldwin, younger brother Stephen Stanley Baldwin, and adopted sister Elizabeth Keuchler sat behind him in the gallery for each of the first two days.
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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.
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