A choose on Monday upheld a responsible verdict towards “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, discovering that withheld proof wouldn’t have modified the result of the trial.
The protection requested for a brand new trial on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to show over a forensic report and an interview with weapons provider Seth Kenney.
“Defendant has not established that there’s a cheap chance that, had the proof been out there to Defendant, the proof would have produced a distinct verdict,” wrote Choose Mary Marlowe Sommer, in her opinion.
Gutierrez Reed is serving an 18-month sentence for involuntary manslaughter within the loss of life of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. At trial in Santa Fe in February, the prosecution argued that she had mishandled weapons on the set and didn’t detect a stay bullet earlier than loading it into Alec Baldwin‘s gun.
The gun discharged throughout preparation for a scene, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin was additionally charged with involuntary manslaughter, however his case was dismissed halfway by trial in July, after the protection confirmed that the prosecution had failed to show over a cache of bullets.
Gutierrez Reed’s protection crew hoped the identical argument would prevail in her case. They argued that prosecutor Kari Morrissey confirmed the identical haphazard strategy to her discovery obligations throughout the Gutierrez Reed trial, by failing to reveal an skilled’s report displaying “unexplained toolmarks” on Baldwin’s gun.
However the choose famous that the skilled concluded that the toolmarks had no bearing on the operation of the firearm, and due to this fact possible wouldn’t have affected the result of the trial.
The choose agreed with the prosecution’s place that Kenney’s interview was duplicative of different statements he had given. Marlowe Sommer additionally dominated that the cache of bullets that ended Baldwin’s case had been out there to Gutierrez Reed, and due to this fact she was not entitled to a brand new trial.
Gutierrez Reed remains to be pursuing an attraction on quite a few different grounds, together with an argument that the jury directions had been defective.
In the meantime, Morrissey is searching for to revive the case towards Baldwin, arguing that the choose was confused by the protection into believing that the withheld bullets had been related to his case.
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