Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will remain behind bars as the Rust armorer awaits sentencing on her involuntary manslaughter conviction, a New Mexico judge ruled today.
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Having trouble? Click here. Actor Alec Baldwin's legal team is asking a New Mexico judge to dismiss the indictment against him related to the fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set, saying prosecutors acted unethically and failed to present crucial evidence to the grand jury. The attorneys argued that the state has violated "nearly every rule in the book" in an effort to convict Baldwin in the fatal movie set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Oct.
21, 2021."Enough is enough," the lawyers wrote. "This is an abuse of the system, and an abuse of an innocent person whose rights have been trampled to the extreme," they wrote in a court filing. Baldwin was indicted on two counts – involuntary manslaughter, negligent use of a firearm, or, in the alternative, involuntary manslaughter without due caution or circumspection – on Jan.
19. The actor had previously been charged with involuntary manslaughter on Jan. 31, 2023.
However, special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis dropped the charges in April after coming across "new facts" that required additional review.After investigating further, prosecutors convened a grand jury. Baldwin has maintained that he did not pull the trigger of the prop gun that led to Hutchins' death. At the time, he had been rehearsing a scene featuring a cross-draw that Hutchins
.Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will remain behind bars as the Rust armorer awaits sentencing on her involuntary manslaughter conviction, a New Mexico judge ruled today.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer on the Alec Baldwin film “Rust,” will remain in jail while her lawyers appeal her conviction in the death of the film’s cinematographer. A Santa Fe judge denied a defense request for release on Friday, and refused to order a new trial in the case. “Keep in mind there was a death that the jury determined was caused by her,” said Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Attorneys for “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed asked a judge on Friday to release her from jail and to grant a new trial, citing a recent New Mexico Supreme Court ruling in another case. Gutierrez Reed faces up to 18 months in prison for negligently loading a live bullet into Alec Baldwin‘s gun and causing the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. She has been held since her conviction on March 6 at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility, where she awaits her April 15 sentencing.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Alec Baldwin was offered a deal last October to plead to a misdemeanor — and apparently serve no jail time — in the accidental shooting on the set of “Rust,” according to a filing made public on Friday. But before he could decide whether to accept the terms, prosecutors withdrew the offer and told his lawyers they would seek to indict him, the filing states. Baldwin was indicted in January on a felony charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and now faces up to 18 months in prison if convicted at trial in July.
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Less than six months before Alec Baldwin is set to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter over the on-set 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the actor who steadfastly claims he never pulled the trigger says prosecutors “have stacked the deck” against him.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Alec Baldwin‘s lawyers asked a judge on Thursday to throw out his manslaughter case, accusing prosecutors of “violating nearly every rule in the book” in the course of obtaining the indictment. The attorneys argued that prosecutors leaked information to the press, failed to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury, and gave a faulty jury instruction on involuntary manslaughter that “stacked the deck” against Baldwin. “Enough is enough,” the lawyers wrote.
Found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last week out of the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will find out her incarceration fate in just over a month.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer When the “Rust” trial began two weeks ago, Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney in Santa Fe, N.M., sent a campaign message to supporters. In it, she made it clear that the case is not just about Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the young armorer who was convicted Wednesday in the 2021 gun accident that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Without naming him, the D.A.
Rust has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter.On October 21, 2021 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot and director Joel Souza was injured on the set of the film, when a live round was discharged from a revolver being used as a prop by Alec Baldwin.The weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had been on trial charged with involuntary manslaughter, to which she pled not guilty. Baldwin will be on trial for the same charges in July and has also pleaded his innocence.After three hours of deliberations yesterday (March 6), the jury convicted Gutierrez-Reed, but found her not guilty of tampering with evidence.
A movie armourer has been found guilty of handing Alex Baldwin a good containing real bullets moments before Rust filmmaker Halyna Hutchins was shot dead.
Three years after the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust, a jury has reached their verdict for armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Attorneys gave their closing arguments in the “Rust” trial in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, with the prosecution urging jurors to find Hannah Gutierrez Reed guilty of involuntary manslaughter and to hold her accountable for an “astonishing” lack of gun safety on the film set. Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey argued that as the film’s armorer, Gutierrez Reed, was in charge of guns on set, and that it was her failure to tell the difference between dummies and live rounds that led to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “This was a game of Russian roulette every time an actor had a gun with dummies,” Morrissey said.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had a “complete lack of understanding of her role of safety on this movie set,” declared the prosecution in their closing argument today in the Rust’s armorer’s involuntary manslaughter trial for the fatal October 21, 20201 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer An OSHA investigator testified on Tuesday that “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed was not given enough time to make sure that there were no live rounds on set. Lorenzo Montoya was the first witness called by the defense in the involuntary manslaughter trial underway in Santa Fe, N.M. Gutierrez Reed is accused of causing the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by loading a live round into Alec Baldwin‘s gun.