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New Mexico judge denies Rust armorer’s appeal for new trial


After dismissal of case against Alec Baldwin in July, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer challenged charges against her

After the shock dismissal of the case against actor Alec Baldwin in July, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer challenged the conviction against her, arguing prosecutors withheld potentially critical evidence. The Rust crew was rehearsing at a movie set outside Santa Fe when a gun Baldwin was holding fired a round of live ammunition, fatally striking Hutchins and hitting the film’s director, Joel Souza. Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unknowingly bringing live ammunition on to the Rust set and said she showed an “astonishing lack of diligence” with gun safety.

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