And she should not have a chance.
Gutierrez-Reed had exactly one job on that production, and she failed to do it. The Armorer is supposed to control all weapons on a set and maintain safe operation of them. There was no excuse for allowing live ammunition on the set at any time. That was the first link in a long chain of omissions that lead to a death.
Actors are assumed to be chimpanzees who cannot ever be trusted with live weapons. There is a body of industry-specific standard practices to solve this problem and they are effective. It is the job of the Armorer to enforce them. She did not. That was criminal negligence.
Baldwin is just an ordinary jackass of an actor who depends on others to keep him in a safe environment. He will skate on manslaughter charges because the DA screwed up the indictment.
Apparently not effective. The industry is guilty of allowing retarded actors handle actual firearms when there is no justification. Either switch out the gun or switch out the actor because together they are a danger. Let them use dummy guns, even the blue rubber ones. The editors can add any effects later with CGI. Needing to "get a better shot" doesn't justify allowing retardates to risk others' lives.
The irritainment industry has such a deadly tragedy about once a decade:
Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally shot himself in the head with a blank round after jokingly putting the gun to his head. (1980s)
Michael Massee killed Brandon Lee by firing a gun with a blank that had a live round stuck in the barrel from earlier. (1990s)
Rapper Keaway Lafonz Ivy was shot while filming a music video in Washington, D.C. with what was meant to be a prop gun. (2010s)
Alec Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins. (2020s)
He may well skate, but the crime being prosecuted is still involuntary manslaughter, which the state would have had to prove before the sentencing enhancement would even have been considered.
All that’s changed is that he’s looking at a max of 18 months rather than 5 years.
He’s basically admitted to the elements of involuntary manslaughter in his various interviews and public statements. His conduct was clearly reckless, and he removed his strongest defense when he admitted to George Stefanopolos that he knew it was a real gun, and knew exactly what safety rules he broke.
FWIW I don't remember this as being true. Early articles said that the AD had her doing a lot of extra stuff, non-armorer related. And that she knew nothing about the live fire stuff going on after hours by the crew.