Husband of cinematographer killed in Baldwin shooting hires lawyer

Husband of cinematographer killed in Baldwin shooting hires lawyer

Reuters

By David Thomas

Matt Hutchins, whose wife Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot dead by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the film “Rust” last month, has hired a Los Angeles-based law firm in connection with the shooting, a spokeswoman said.

Brian Panish of personal injury firm Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi, who earlier this year helped secure a $2.2 billion settlement for victims of Southern California wildfires and mudslides, will be the lead attorney, said Hutchins spokeswoman Amanda Duckworth.

Panish has also represented the mother and children of pop singer Michael Jackson in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Panish declined to comment. Legal experts have said Halyna Hutchins’ family could file civil lawsuits seeking financial damages for negligence after a gun Baldwin was holding released a live bullet. Baldwin had been told the gun was safe to use.

Hutchins has been photographed embracing and talking with Baldwin in the days after the shooting.

Hutchins, a corporate associate at U.S. law firm Latham & Watkins, is the latest to hire legal counsel in the wake of the Oct. 21 shooting that also injured director Joel Souza.

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  • JOHN MAYOR November 10, 2021

    Greetings!…
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    (Note: the ensuing message was prepared in the MONOSPACE Consolas Font [at 8-point BOLD], at a max screen width of 166 characters. Please print in “legal landscape”!)
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    https://www.youtube.com/embed/SF0BFdnihSU
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    If I may suggest, “Rifnote Sports member”, we now possess the “smoking gun” behind the diabol(ic) sabotage of the Rust Production… we now need to, connect the dots!
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    And BTW!… given the existence of the TV series, “American Rust”, I am now curious as to how “Rust” was even introduced to Alec Baldwin!… and who introduced it! In other words… was “Rust” a legitimate “artistic excursion”?… or merely an “artistic ploy” to bring Baldwin into contact with the means for “someone’s” destruction!
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    Member!… it is time to awaken to America’s BEAST!… and he is more than just a calculating, “Chavinist”! Incidentally, Derek Chauvin worked alongside George Floyd! And we’ve yet to talk of a conspiracy to plant a “FAKE BILLet”!… to taint the credibility of Chauvin’s “pal”!… and whether the FBI should be asked to investigate!
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    Simply put, the sooner we can, connect the dots, the sooner we may be able to secure the Psychiatric help that Donald Trump obviously requires!
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    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-time-cure/201709/the-dangerous-case-donald-trump
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    “The incident could lead to serious criminal charges, but more likely for the expert weapon handlers on set than for Baldwin.” – Dave Katz, CEO, Global Security Group
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_shooting_incident#cite_note-koat-13 (see, “Shooting”… the end of second line)… and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_master
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    Despite the lack of both a Wiktionary definition of “COLD GUN” and a Wikipedia reference of the notion of “COLD GUN”, in addition to the outline provided in the Wiki, “Rust shooting incident”, there are more than sufficient online sources to establish what this notion pertains to, and what and who should be the center of our focus!
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    This stinks of hell! This wasn’t an “accident”!… you don’t make “mistakes” like this on any notable production!… and one has to ask how the union for propmasters, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE… Local 44), would declare in a Friday, October 22nd, 2021 email to it(‘)s members (and oddly, not to Investigating Authorities first!) that the propmaster working on “Rust” wasn’t a member of the Local 44 union, but declare earlier that the gun Alec Baldwin was using on set contained BLANKS (however, in contrast to the FACT that the FBI in Quantico, Virginia has confirmed that the .45 Long Colt Revolver that killed Halyna Hutchins propelled a LIVE ROUND, and the prop gun/ weapon was declared a “C-O-L-D G-U-N”!… a techn[ic] phrase that IATSE and Local 44 members know full well refers to a prop gun having NO BLANKS OR BULLETS [and a phrase that the attending ARMORER to the Rust film, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed {daughter of long-time industry armorer, Thell Reed}, would also know the meaning of {and who would also know that she should be working with a LICENSED PROPMASTER, who’d also know the meaning of the phrase, COLD GUN!… and which begs the question: “Is Hannah Gutierrez-Reed a ‘prop gun for hire’?… and should she be the star of a new film, called: ‘Have Prop Gun – Will Travel’?”]… see, Rust shooting incident, Wikipedia)! How would IATSE Principals even know that the gun Alec Baldwin was using on set contained BLANKS (and still, not make comment on the obvious conclusion that a LIVE ROUND was extant, on the COLD GUN declaration offered up by Assistant Director, Dave Halls, on the distinction to be had between a prop gun with LIVE ROUNDS or BLANKS and a COLD PROP GUN, nor make comment on the presence and involvement of the daughter of one of the most notable armorers in the business– and who, through her training, would know the difference between a COLD GUN and a HOT GUN, but, managed to “DEFER COMMUNICATION” to Dave Halls that the HOT GUN that SHE WOULD BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT PREPARING [AND ENSURING COULD NOT BE PREPARED!], HANDING-OFF TO ALEC BALDWIN [NOT LEFT ON A TABLE!] AND DECLARING THE STATUS OF, WASN’T CRIMINALLY COMMUNICATED as a COLD GUN!… AND, OF COURSE, such “FACTUAL IATSE INFORMATION” not communicated to reporters through a secretary who had just arrived back to work drunk!) if IATSE/ Local 44 had nothing to do with the props on the Rust film? And what’s up with the “curious need” to communicate to it(‘)s MEMBERS… AND FIRST!… that the propmaster working on Rust wasn’t a member of the IATSE’s Local 44 union? And, if by law, IATSE’s Local 44 union WAS to be a part of Rust’s weapons management and propmastering, then what does this say about what IATSE is really all about?… a “front” for “something else”? And further, what led to the “Production decision” to not use an IATSE Local 44 propmaster, if IATSE members WERE to be on set?… and why would IATSE Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Pawluc state in a “contradictory” email: “A live single round was ‘accidentally fired (my emphasis)’ on set by the principal actor, hitting both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halyna Hutchins and Director Joel Souza.”, if IATSE, Local 44, had NADA to do with the props on the Rust movie? Why would he be making comment at all about another propmaster’s commissions and/ or omissions, if IATSE, Local 44 had nothing to do with the weapons management and props management on the Rust film?… unless, maybe, he knew that there was not– AND WASN’T TO BE!– a required IATSE CERTIFIED AND IATSE IDENTIFIED armorer and propmaster on the set of the Rust film, to oversee the actions of one Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and to otherwise effect the LEGAL OBLIGATIONS stipulated elsewhere regarding the safe use of prop guns (see, weapons master)!
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    Yet further, IATSE’s Local 44 has “CONFIRMED” that the Props, Set Decoration, Special Effects and Construction Departments were staffed by, “NEW MEXICO CREW MEMBERS”! And so, again, why has IATSE Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Pawluc come out with his email statement… and IATSE members otherwise declare that the gun Alec Baldwin was using on set contained BLANKS!… when the Props, Set Decoration, Special Effects and Construction Departments were staffed by NEW MEXICO CREW MEMBERS? Why wouldn’t a spokesperson for the NEW MEXICO CREW MEMBERS be making comment on the circumstances surrounding the “accidental”… “OOPS”!… shooting of two production crew members on the Rust film? And BTW!… if the late Halyna Hutchins is deemed fit to be an IATSE Local 600 member in New Mexico, then why would IATSE’s union for propmasters be absent in New Mexico (https://bit.ly/3bCkp9F)? It makes no sense! Is someone offering up a plate of “circumlocutory obfuscation”?… wanting “us” to believe that this happened in MEXICO? Whereat, an unskilled/ untrained MEXICAN (AN ANTI-TRUMP, LEFT-SUPPORTING AND UN-AMERICAN BORDER-JUMPER!… yet part of a CONVENIENTLY ORCHESTRATED wild strike– and “SMOKE SCREEN”!) “accidentally” “propmastered” and/ or placed A live round (LET ALONE, a BLANK, OR NOTHING!… hitting two!) into the prop gun to be used by SNL TV’s PREMIER TRUMP IMPERSONATOR– and whereat and wherein, IATSE’s Local 44’s propmaster isn’t welcome (in, “MEXICO”!)! And please note: LIVE ROUNDS DON’T LOOK LIKE BLANK ROUNDS!… AND EVEN A PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT WOULD KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!… AND IF YOUR M-O-S-T I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T ARMORER DUTY OF THE DAY IS TO PULL THE PLUG ON A PRODUCTION THAT IS IN CLEAR BREACH OF Y-O-U-R LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AS AN ARMORER– LET ALONE, ENSURE THAT YOU ARE WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LICENSED MASTER OF PROPS, THAT A LIVE ROUND IS NOT LOADED INTO A “C-O-L-D G-U-N”, C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-T-I-O-U-S-L-Y HANDED TO THE LEAD ACTOR AND THEN N-O-N_C-R-I-M-N-A-L-L-Y COMMUNICATED BY Y-O-U AS A C-O-L-D G-U-N!– THEN YOU’VE FAILED AS A HUMAN BEING, AND AS AN ARMORER! AND PLEASE, LET US NOT FIND THAT THE “PROPMASTER (SARAH ZACHRY)” HAS COME TO AN UNFORTUNATE END… AND SO, WE MUST HALT ANY “WITCH HUNT” FOR THE CAUSE OF THE “ACCIDENTAL” DEATH OF HH, THE COLLATERAL SHOOTING OF JOEL SOUZA AND THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE CAREER OF SNL TV’S PREMIER TRUMP IMPERSONATOR! AND JUST IN CASE, READER!… DO YOU RECALL WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA ON JAN. 6TH OF 2021?… AND ARE YOU PRIVY TO THE EXPRESSED ONLINE HATRED AGAINST ALEC BALDWIN OVER HIS SNL SKITS (THE WHICH, CONTRIBUTED– IN NO SMALL MEASURE!– TO THE SOCIAL REVOLT THAT SAW THE OUSTER OF DT!)?
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    Bonanza Creek ranch near Santa Fe, NEW MEXICO where this incident took place, IS A PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!… AND THERE SHOULD BE NO LEGAL OR PRODUCTION REASON FOR IATSE’S LOCAL 44’S PROPMASTER NOT TO HAVE BEEN ON THE RUST MOVIE ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021… AND SO: WHERE THE HELL WAS IATSE’S LOCAL 44’S PROPMASTER? IS THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES RESPONSIBLE FOR “PROPS” ON FILM SETS IN AMERICA, OR NOT?… OR, JUST ON “SPECIAL SETS” WHEREIN LIVE ROUNDS AREN’T REQUIRED, AND WHEREON WIGGED TRUMP-BASHERS ARE NOWHERE IN VIEW? AND A SOUND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE TEAM WOULD WANT TO KNOW– SHOULD WANT TO KNOW!– WHY IATSE’S “SPOKESPEEPS” WOULD BE CLAIMING “PROPMASTER DISTANCING” FROM THE RUST FILM, WHILE BOLDLY DECLARING THAT THIS WAS AN “ACCIDENT” ON A SET, OF WHICH THEY WEREN’T A PART!
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    To close…
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    THE NONSENSICAL AND RIDICULOUS IATSE “COALITION RULES” NOTWITHSTANDING (I.E., THESE DO NOT WITHSTAND THE ARMORER AND PROPMASTERING FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS TO FOLLOW!), IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF AN ARMORER UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF AN ON-SET LICENSED PROPMASTER (BUT IN FACT, IN THE ABSENCE OF A LICENSED PROPMASTER!… NOT AN ACTOR!) TO ENSURE THAT A PRODUCTION IS E̲-N̲-D̲-E̲-D̲ IF A PRODUCTION’S GUNS/ WEAPONS POSE A PRESENT AND IMMINENT DANGER TO A MOVIE’S PRODUCTION CREW, AND IF A LICENSED PROPMASTER IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND (WITH THE ABILITY OF A PRODUCTION’S ARMORER TO COMPEL COMPLIANCE BY INVOKING THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SUMMON POLICE, AND TO NAME VIOLATORS OF ANY AND ALL VIOLATIONS OF AN ARMORER’S DECLARED ON-SET WARNINGS– LET ALONE, ENSURING THAT AN ARMORER-DETERMINED C-O-L-D G-U-N IS NOT LOADED WITH BULLETS OR BLANKS, THAT SUCH IS C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-T-I-O-U-S-L-Y HANDED TO A GIVEN PRODUCTION CREW MEMBER FOR ON-SET USE AND THAT A WEAPON’S C-O-L-D S-T-A-T-U-S ISN’T C-R-I-M-N-A-L-L-Y COMMUNICATED!
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    THIS IS THE REASON WHY THE POSITION OF ARMORER (WEAPONS MASTER) WAS CREATED!… AND TO REMOVE ACTORS FROM ANY WEAPONS RESPONSIBILITY AND POTENTIAL CRIMINAL LIABILITY? FOR, IF ACTORS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR “RECHECKING” PROP GUNS (EVEN WITH CREW WITNESSES!), THEN HOW WOULD ANY ACTOR (OR, ANY OTHER PRODUCTION MEMBER!) MAINTAIN PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY SHOULD A PRODUCTION MEMBER DIE DUE TO GUNFIRE?… SUCH WOULD NEED TO DEFEND THEIR STEPS IN RECHECKING A PROP GUN, AND WITNESSES WOULD BE CROSS-EXAMINABLE!
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    FURTHER, IF THE IATSE AND ANY OF IT(‘)S LOCAL UNIONS WERE S-E-R-I-O-U-S ABOUT IMPLENTING PROACTIVE MEASURES THAT/ WHICH WOULD HAVE ENDED, WOULD END NOW AND WOULD STOP ANY SIMILAR TRAGEDIES IN THE FUTURE, THEN THESE WOULD HAVE PLEADED THAT FILMMAKERS AVOID THE EVIL COMPLETELY BY ENSURING THAT FILMMAKERS AND SETS USE WWEAPONS ALTERED IN A WAY THAT WOULD MAKE THEM INCAPABLE OF FIRING ANYTHING EXCEPT SPECIALLY SIZED BLANKS… SOMETHING THAT SOME COMPANIES HAVE ALREADY DONE!… AND, REGARDLESS OF THE EXTRA COSTS OF RENDERING FUNCTIONAL GUNS ESSENTIALLY USELESS FOR ANYTHING BUT MOVIE MAKING/ THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS (SEE, DAVE KATZ, A FORMER SENIOR SPECIAL AGENT WITH THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION/ DEA AND THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF “GLOBAL SECURITY GROUP”– A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION AND SECURITY FIRM… SEE KATZ, securitygsg.com)!
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    AND SO, I CANNOT TAKE IATSE’S RECENT CO-OPTED DISINGENUOUS HYPE (AND, BELATED!) THAT/ WHICH WOULD HAVE ALL FILMMAKERS AND FILMMAKING ADOPT A PURELY “VIRTUAL APPROACH” TO SCENES WHEREIN WEAPONS ARE TO BE USED!… FOR, THESE HAVE HAD THEIR PROVERBIAL “PINKING” KICK AT THE CAN (OR BOTTLES!), AND WE’RE NO BETTER OFF NOW THAN YESTERDAY!
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    THESE FACTS– I SUGGEST!– ARE KNOWN TO COUNTY SHERIFF ADAN MENDOZA, AND HIS DEPUTIES, OF THE SANTA FE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE!… AND SHOULD RESULT IN SWIFT CHARGES!
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    NEVERTHELESS, IF A PROTRACTED INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS ENSUES… OR OMITS THESE FACTS ALTOGETHER!… IN ADDITION TO A FBI INVESTIGATION OF IATSE, LOCAL 44, THE MASTER OF PROPS FOR THE RUST FILM (OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL!), “ASSISTANT DIRECTOR” DAVE HALLS (AS HE MUST GIVE EVIDENCE CONCERNING WHY HE RETRIEVED AND RELAYED THE GUN THAT ALEC BALDWIN USED, AND MADE THE “COLD GUN” DECLARATION… AND NOT HANNAH GUTIERREZ-REED [UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A LICENSED PROPMASTER!]!… AND WHAT WAS SAID TO HIM, AND BY WHOM [E.G., IF DAVE HALLS DID NOT RECEIVE A “COLD GUN” DECLARATION FROM ANYONE… LET ALONE, FROM THE FILM’S ARMORER!… THEN WHY– INDEED!– WOULD HE D-A-R-E MAKE A “COLD GUN” DECLARATION KNOWING FULL WELL THAT SUCH A DECLARATION IS TO BE COMMUNICATED BY WAY OF THE ARMORER?… AND IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ARMORER DECLARATION, WHERE IS THE ARMORER’S “PUBLIC CHASTISEMENT” AND “PUBLIC EXPLANATION” OF A DECLARATION MADE WITHOUT DUE VERBAL AUTHORIZATION?]!) AND THE PERSON OF MS HANNAH GUTIERREZ-REED, I WOULD ALSO ADD-IN THE HANDLING OF THE INVESTIGATION BY COUNTY SHERIFF ADAN MENDOZA, OF THE SANTA FE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE (AND IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT, THAT THIS PRODUCTION HUB– AND IT[‘]S PRACTICES– ARE WELL KNOWN!)!… AND LET THE SUPREME COURT DECIDE WHETHER SUNDRY HAVE BEEN UP TO, “CONSPIRATORIAL I̲N̲JECTIONABLE OFFENSES”!
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    C.S. ADAN MENDOZA of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, should want to have answers for these anomalous FACTS!… and if IATSE/ Local 44 refuses!… well, TOO BAD!
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    Nonetheless, should C.S. ADAN MENDOZA of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office not want to have answers for these anomalous FACTS, then he and his should be “FLAGGED”!
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    All the best, and God Bless!… I think we may need a ROSS MCGOWAN for the “LUST MURDERERS”!… as MURDERERS are tact(icly) well situated in “Unholywood’s heartland”!
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    My P.S.:…
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    Alec Baldwin should be leary– made wary!– of anyone offering, “suicide counselling”! Such may appear legitimate… but, may be a “tidy end” to a “BALDWIN CAMPAIGN”!
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    If it is discovered that the bullet that/ which killed Halyna Hutchins is tied to a carefully contrived “RIGHT-WING PAYBACK CONSPIRACY”… and with the slight-of-hand assist of members of IATSE and/ or it(‘)s Local Union 44 (but, etc.!)!… I have a new job title for Alec Baldwin: THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
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    Reader, see Romans Chapter 13: 1-2. Two questions: Who is presently the Presidential Authority in the U.S.?… and who gave this person Authority? No emails required!

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