Kansas Kid said:
aggiehawg said:
torrid said:
Will be interesting to be if there are separate trials or if both are tried at the same time.
Was watching Emily's stream on this. She played a CNN interview with the DA. When the DA was talking about the procedures she said they would go before a judge for a preliminary hearing on the probable cause for arrest and then "possibly" proceed to trial if they get past the prelim. Emily was aghast at that because no DA worth their salt will even file charges if they have even a hint the evidence won't past probable cause muster.
Further she went on to say that when the charges are filed, they will not ask for the arrest of the defendants but will instead request a summons be issued for their appearance or maybe even do the arraignment via zoom.
So Baldwin is being handled with kid gloves, apparently.
Any predictions as to what misdemeanor he will ultimately take a plea bargain for? No way his case goes to trial.
The misdemeanor charge involves negligence in handling a deadly weapon. That's what the Asst. Director Hall pled to.
But I'm not sure Baldwin is in the mood to plead out, nor the Special Prosecutor in the mood to plead it down. The reason I say that is because of the way these charges will be structured.
There's involuntary manslaughter that occurs during a lawful act and involuntary manslaughter during an unlawful act. Here the unlawful act is that misdemeanor in handling the gun. So in effect pleading to that would mostly be the same as pleading to the felony charge, if that makes sense. (I was pretty confused about where the two charges were coming from too.) But there you have it.
The DA also stated that the FBI has evidence that Baldwin did indeed pull the trigger even though Baldwin denies it.
Further, not all of the civil suits have been settled so Baldwin pleading out would affect those and not in his favor.
