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US judge considers Rust armorer’s appeal against manslaughter conviction
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, jailed for 18 months, alleges prosecutorial misconduct and seeks to be released
A judge heard arguments on whether to dismiss a criminal conviction against a movie armorer in the shooting death of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin and said she would rule next week on whether to scuttle the case or order a retrial. In a remote court hearing, an attorney for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed challenged her March conviction for involuntary manslaughter, alleging that prosecutors failed to share evidence including ammunition that might have been exculpatory in the shooting death that occurred on the set of Rust in 2021. In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described “egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct” by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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