A New Mexico choose on Monday upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction towards a film armorer within the deadly capturing of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie “Rust.”
Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed requested a court docket to dismiss her conviction or convene a brand new trial, alleging that prosecutors did not share proof that might have cleared her.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer in her written order famous that the armorer’s attorneys didn’t set up that there was an affordable chance that the end result of the trial would have been totally different had the proof been accessible to Gutierrez-Reed.
The choose additionally rejected a request from Gutierrez-Reed that she be launched from custody, saying it was moot as a result of the request for a brand new trial was denied.
Marlow Sommer halted and ended Baldwin’s trial in July primarily based on misconduct of police and prosecutors and their withholding proof from the protection within the 2021 capturing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set outdoors Santa Fe.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins throughout a rehearsal on a film set outdoors Santa Fe when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
A jury convicted Gutierrez-Reed of involuntary manslaughter in March in a trial overseen by Marlowe Sommer, who later sentenced her to the utmost 18-month penalty. Gutierrez-Reed has an attraction of the conviction pending in a better court docket. Jurors acquitted her of allegations she tampered with proof within the “Rust” investigation.
Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing reside ammunition onto the set of “Rust” and for failing to comply with primary gun security protocols.
Evidence that Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys mentioned prosecutors did not share included a report by a firearms skilled concerning the performance of the gun that Baldwin used, ammunition that was later turned in to authorities and an interview with “Rust” ammunition provider Seth Kenney.
Defense attorneys didn’t instantly reply Monday to an e-mail requesting touch upon the choose’s choice.
Gutierrez-Reed has pleaded not responsible to a separate felony cost that she allegedly carried a gun right into a bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the place firearms are prohibited. A proposed plea settlement is awaiting court docket evaluation.
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