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Matt Watts

Alec Baldwin trial told actor 'violated cardinal rules of firearm safety' during fatal Rust shooting

A prosecutor told jurors that Alec Baldwin “violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety” in opening statements on Wednesday at his involuntary manslaughter trial.

“The evidence will show that someone who played make believe with a real gun and violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety is the defendant, Alexander Baldwin,” special prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson told the court.

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