During the trial, cracks in the plaintiff’s case began to emerge Baldwin’s trial as the actor’s lead lawyer, Alex Spirogrilled SFSO technician Marissa Poppell at the crime scene stand about evidence collection, which revealed protocols that weren’t followed.
The team searched PDQ Arm and Prop LLC in Albuquerque on November 30, 2021, more than a month after the October 21 shooting, as they worked to determine how real bullets mixed with fake rounds on the film set. This crucial question was never definitively answered, but the case against Baldwin revolved around the premise that the live rounds were brought to the set by Rust gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-ReedWHO had been convicted in her own involuntary manslaughter case in March.
Poppell was accompanied by Cpl. Alexandra Hancock — the lead detective on the Rust research – and Cpl. Christopher Zook as they rummaged through the cluttered warehouse of Seth Kenney, the film’s prop supplier.
The videos we obtained show Kenney and investigators making several pranks as SFSO officers search through boxes of ammunition. Baldwin’s defense team later questioned why Kenney was on the scene during the search when he was a “person of interest” as a potential source of the live rounds.