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Alec Baldwin’s Trial Was “Improperly” Dismissed By Judge, ‘Rust’ Prosecutor Claims; Wants Armorer’s Retrial Request Rejected
If Hannah Gutierrez-Reed hoped Alec Baldwin's trial being tossed out was going to get her out of prison early, Kari Morrissey says no way
In a July 31 filing made public today, Kari Morrissey says Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer was determined to end Baldwin’s trial for the 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and flawed in her reasoning. Whether Morrissey is directing her ire at New Mexico judge Sommer, her former fellow special prosecutor Erlinda Johnson (who suddenly resigned mid-trial on July 12), an “unsatisfactory” paralegal she fired, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer Jason Bowles, or Baldwin and the armorer for not taking plea deals is hard to tell – it might be all of the above. In April, Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in a New Mexico state prison after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the live round that ended up on the seemingly chaotic Rust set.
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