January 23, 2023
Baldwin’s public attempts to cast blame elsewhere may have backfired legally, according to Rachel Fiset, a managing partner at the California firm Zweiback, Fiset & Zalduendo.
“The deflection of blame that was constantly coming out of his mouth, even as he struggled to deal with this accident — because I think everybody believes that was an accident — probably just rubbed [the prosecutors] the wrong way, because what prosecutors want to see is remorse,” Fiset said. “They want to see that somebody has taken a thoughtful, measured approach to something as tragic as this and that it would never happen again.”
