 In a blow to the prosecution, the judge also ruling that the state cannot argue that Baldwin was negligent in his role as a co producer on the film, only in his role as an actor. Excluding the information about Alec Baldwin being a co producer is gonna hamper the state a bit because a part of their case in chief was that he was aware of the safety deficiencies and that he was even more aware of how these actions could have led to this type of an event.