Recent content by Datchery

Reminder that negligence is not automatically criminal negligence. If you aren't being careful and an accident occurs as a result, normally, you aren't going to be charged with a crime; the victim can sue you. For it to be a crime, you had to act in a knowingly and deliberately reckless manner...

It isn't elitism. Actors are in a different position because they are working as part of a crew in which SOP is that there are other professionals hired to do precisely those checks. To use an admittedly imperfect analogy: parents are presumptively responsible for caring for their children. But...

I've seen this sentiment a few times, and it is really unfair, IMO. I'm not sure that AB would have done anything different if he had been holding the gun to his own head. Maybe he would have. Maybe he wouldn't have. I doubt he would have checked anything himself if he were jumping out of a...

Can someone who knows guns comment on these recent statements by HGR and DH? I don't know how you are supposed to check a gun, so I'm confused--are they saying that both of them checked the gun, but may not have done it correctly? What does it mean when he says he "only saw three rounds in the...

I was actually thinking that it may be impossible to know who it was--in fact, if more than one person didn't unload their gun after "plinking," the person him or herself might not be sure. If four crew members were using similar-looking, old style revolvers, and two of them put the guns back...

All JMO, but... First of all, the difference between a rule and a law seems extremely relevant here. Breaking a law is criminal, and if the result of that law-breaking is someone's death--even if you didn't intend for that to happen-you're likely to be in criminal trouble. Failing to obey a...

Reading all this, my guess is there is going to be MASSIVE civil liability, and criminal charges for at least one person, who will not be AB (he will have some civil liability for the shooting itself, and more depending on how much he was involved as a producer). IMO, either DH or HGR will face...

To me, the most potentially damning thing is that there were earlier issues involving guns going off. My questions, in determining level of culpability, would be: 1. What happened in the earlier "misfires"? Were they parallel to the AB case--someone thought the gun wasn't loaded, and it...

I'm going by this article: Alec Baldwin 'Rust' Movie Shooting Updates: "Super Unsafe" Accidental Gun Discharges Reported (decider.com) The source refers to it as "3 accidental discharges," and the article describes it as "prop gun misfires." I'm not sure if either is the correct language, but...

We still don't know that Baldwin pointed the gun at anyone, or that he pulled the trigger. It may have been an accidental discharge. Doesn't mean he was acting completely according to protocol, but makes a difference, IMO.

It seems to me that, like so many cases, this is not a fully black and white scenario. AB can have SOME responsibility, including civil liability, without being criminally culpable. IANAL, but as far as I understand, liability requires negligence, whereas criminal manslaughter requires...

I am very much hoping that BDR did not get to the level of assaulting SLP physically...maybe it is too optimistic, but I DO think he might be a socially awkward loner who didn't have it in him to get to that point. However, after reading everything that has come out, I agree with everyone who...

Hi all. Since some people were asking about denominational differences, I wanted to give an insiders perspective, since a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of an Orthodox or Conservative Jew isn't necessarily going to represent the complex range of observance. My own identification is...

I think there are two issues here. I do not believe that, taken in itself - or even with Ramirez and Swetnick's claims -- Ford's allegations should have been enough to derail the nomination. This is not because I think she was lying; I believe something that could be classified as sexual...

My understanding of a mental illness defense is that the standard is extremely high. You'd have to prove that you were so incapacitated that you didn't know that what you were doing was illegal. Even if you heard voices telling you that doing act X was necessary to save the world, you couldn't...