He is accustomed to the spotlight as a forty-year Hollywood veteran, but this trial is subjecting him to a spotlight and a level of scrutiny he has never experienced before.
TV cameras surrounding Baldwin as he entered the Santa Fe, New Mexico, courthouse.
Reporters peppered him with questions, but he said nothing. What was his emotional state? Would two weeks from now be a free man? Is he afraid of ending up behind bars? Was it his fault that Halyna Hutchins died?
Over the course of the next two weeks, a jury will deliberate on the latter issue.
It is undeniable that the live bullet that killed Ms. Hutchins came from the gun he was pointing at her.
However, the stories put forth by the prosecution and defense about what transpired and why are radically different.
The defense contends that Baldwin adhered to industry protocol and could not have possibly predicted there would be live rounds on set, while the state of New Mexico claims Baldwin had a “reckless disregard” for gun safety.
Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria, who is the mother of seven of his children, entered the courtroom located on the second floor of the First Judicial District Courthouse.
While her husband sat in the dock with his two defense attorneys by his side, she took her place in the front row of the public gallery.
