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‘Rust’ Trial to Start Next Week, as Judge Rejects Last-Minute Bid to Dismiss Case


The judge in the 'Rust' case denied a last-minute defense motion to throw out the case on Wednesday.

The trial of “ Rust ” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will begin as planned next week, as a Santa Fe judge on Wednesday rejected a last-minute bid to throw out the case. Gutierrez Reed’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, had argued that the case was irreparably tainted when the state turned over hundreds of attorney-client text messages to a key witness. She is accused of recklessly loading a live bullet into Alec Baldwin’s gun on the set of a Western film, leading to the death of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer.

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