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Originally Posted by Rockstar
A technicality is what got Baldwin out of trouble with the law. Such is the benefit of the rich and famous I guess. hehe
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It was a bit more than just "a technicality".
At some point, I think on day 2, the defence made it known that some of the evidence (ammunition) had been filed under different case # and no one had notified them about it. From there, the entirety of day 3 was spent on the motion to dismiss. At first a detective and a crime scene technician gave some excuses as to why it was filed under a different case #, even the judge started to ask questions from them.
The judge started to get more and more pissed off at the situation and eventually asked the detective who made the decision to use a different case #. To everyone's surprise, among other people, she also mentioned Morrissey - the lead prosecutor as having been a part in making that decision.
And then things went downhill fast... culminating in Morrissey voluntarily, without request, to take the witness stand to give her side of the story under oath. Of course, being now in the witness stand also opened her to questions from his competition. The defence attorney demolished her, asking about people who had resigned under her, whether she had called Baldwin names etc. etc.
EDIT: Oh, forgot to say that the ammunition in question likely wasn't even from the Rust set, so would have been useless for both sides. The prosecution sabotaged their own case for no reason.
Not that I think there was a case to begin with, I fully agree with Skybird on this. Baldwin was given a gun that passed through two people, both of whom should have checked it, but didn't.