They are when you’re holding an actual trial. You can’t try both criminal and civil charges simultaneously, the two processes are quite different from each other.
I don’t think his criminal liability is any different between him being a producer or an actor. He was criminally charged for manslaughter because he was the one who pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. It had nothing to do with his title or role in the movie’s production.
Civil liability is an entirely different thing. I would argue his civil liability as the producer is probably greater than it is as the actor. An actor would in theory have very little to do with the overall production and the handling of firearms on the set. The producer on the other hand could easily be proven as responsible for systemic failures in basic safety protocols.
Criminal or civil liability?
They aren’t mutually exclusive
They are when you’re holding an actual trial. You can’t try both criminal and civil charges simultaneously, the two processes are quite different from each other.
Even then they aren’t mutually exclusive. It just isn’t dispositive of the other.
In a civil trial after being found guilty of a crime you couldn’t reasonably argue that you shouldn’t be found civilly liable because of that.
Criminal. Manslaughter is a criminal offense.
I don’t think his criminal liability is any different between him being a producer or an actor. He was criminally charged for manslaughter because he was the one who pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. It had nothing to do with his title or role in the movie’s production.
Civil liability is an entirely different thing. I would argue his civil liability as the producer is probably greater than it is as the actor. An actor would in theory have very little to do with the overall production and the handling of firearms on the set. The producer on the other hand could easily be proven as responsible for systemic failures in basic safety protocols.