Alec Baldwin charge dropped, but prosecutor should throw the whole thing out
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Alec Baldwin charge dropped, but prosecutor’s error is another reminder that she should throw the whole thing out and let it be settled in civil court.
It does not speak well of the district attorney in the case, Mary Carmack-Altwies, that she seems incapable of conceding error. Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review. Follow him on Twitter @andrewcmccarthy
As Baldwin’s lawyers pointed out, the state committed a rudimentary constitutional violation in adding the enhancement. It raises the potential sentence by five years if a defendant is found to have recklessly disregarded safety by acting "without due caution and circumspection."
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