Of course Alec Baldwin shouldn’t receive special treatment because he’s famous. He shouldn’t be treated, as the district attorney in Santa Fe, N.M., put it, as if he were “above the law.” There shouldn’t be “two legal systems in your county — one for the powerful and one for everyone else,” as a New Mexico law professor noted.
Baldwin should be treated like anyone else would be under the strange circumstances he finds himself in.
But at the same time, Baldwin shouldn’t be charged or convicted because he’s a famous actor or because there’s political pressure to bring charges or because when someone gets shot, someone else always must be held responsible.
