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‘Rust’ Armorer Wants Conviction Tossed After Alec Baldwin Case Dismissed

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed says the state misconduct that led to Alec Baldwin's case dismissal is "exactly the evil" required to dismiss her case too

In a new motion filed Tuesday, Gutierrez-Reed’s defense lawyer Jason Bowles argued that “severe and ongoing discovery violations by the state” give Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer adequate grounds to overturn his client’s March 6 conviction, vacate her 18-month prison sentence, and dismiss her case forever. In his filing, Bowles alleged that special prosecutor Kari Morrissey “lied to this court several times” on Friday after she called herself to the witness stand and testified about the batch of live ammunition that was surrendered to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office on March 6, the same day Gutierrez-Reed was convicted. They said jurors could have concluded that a match corroborated Reed’s claim that he gave a can of live ammunition to props supplier Seth Kenney as a “write off” after the men conducted a “cowboy training” with actors on a different movie prior to the start of Rust’s filming at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe.

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