You mean, we’ll see if a rich, famous white guy whose acting skills are well known can convince a jury he’s really sorry and didn’t know…. And it’s really really not his fault!

His guilt is already there, and I suspect it’s weighing on him heavily. The presumption of innocence is merely an assumption that informs procedural rules preserving Baldwin’s (or any accuse’d) rights and civil liberties.

A man who is guilty of a crime is not innocent then suddenly guilty when a jury finds them so- they’ve always been guilty, and would remain guilty even if they were acquitted. Similarly, an innocent man could be found guilty while being innocent. Such a person doesn’t become guilty just because 12 people made a mistake.

With that rant out of the way….

It’s effectively self evident he was handling a loaded firearm in an unsafe manner resulting in the death of one and severe injury of another.

There are a lot of things that could have prevented this tragedy, personal actions he could take:

• as a producer, hiring a competent armor and support staff. He did not.
• also as a producer, responded to correct the safety concerns that were reported to him.
• adequately reviewing on- and off-set safety protocol.
• he could have inspected the pistol himself. It’s not hard, takes thirty seconds. A trained monkey could do it. He did not
• alternatively, if you want to be truly idiot-resistant, firing into a bullet catcher (a steel box with… stuff… inside to capture any rounds that do go off.) he did not.
• not using a a functional fire arm.
• not hanging crew and actors down range when he was posing.
• not pulling the fucking trigger.

And that’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more.

None of these things were beyond his capabilities as the actor, nevermind the producer. All of them should be familiar.

None of those things are particularly difficult to accommodate. None of them are “unreasonable.”