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‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Loses Bid To Get Involuntary Manslaughter Case Tossed As Trial Looms
A week before Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is set to go to trial for the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the former armorer has failed in her latest effort to have her case dismissed. “I find that the communications are not materially prejudicial to the defendant,” New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer swatted away the […]
“I find that the communications are not materially prejudicial to the defendant,” New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer swatted away the defense’s motion that Gutierrez-Reed’s case has been polluted due to the sharing of a detailed report full of private correspondence by the armorer with a state witness. Though Rust star/producer Alec Baldwin was re-charged with manslaughter claims by a New Mexico grand jury on January 19, a year to the day he was originally charged over Hutchins’ death, no trial date has yet to be scheduled in his case. Unlike the initial stumbling probe into the shooting, the 2023 appointed special prosecutors have dug deep into alleged drug use by Gutierrez-Reed as a possible explanation for at least the oversight of the fatal live rounds getting on the Rust set.
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