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Thanks for the explanation. But the prosecutor said "He (Baldwin) didn’t check it. He didn’t do any of the things that he was supposed to do to make sure that he was safe or that anyone around him was safe. And then he pointed the gun at Halyna Hutchins and he pulled the trigger." This means it was Baldwin's responsibility to check the gun himself, rather than relying on someone else's pronouncement that the gun was safe. Given this statement, I suspect this charge would have been brought even if Baldwin weren't a producer.

In some respects, this reminds me of the Twilight Zone accident in 1982, where actor Vic Morrow and two illegally-employed child actors were killed by a crashing helicopter on set. John Landis, the director, and George Folsey Jr., associate producer, were acquitted of manslaughter, despite being more directly responsible in their roles.