Incarcerated ‘Rust’ Armorer Requests Dismissal Of Charges Or New Trial After Alec Baldwin Manslaughter Case Tossed Out
deadline.comAlmost immediately after Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial over the 2021 death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tossed out last week, the lawyer for the troubled film’s incarcerated armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed vowed to make a move to free her.
Today, he has. Based on the prosecution and local police’s failure to fully disclose evidence in Baldwin’s trial, Jason Bowles on Tuesday filed an expedited motion in the New Mexico courts to see Gutierrez-Reed’s case dismissed, or for her to receive a new trial ASAP. “Justice demands that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s conviction be overturned immediately, ensuring that the legal system does not perpetuate this core affront to our system that has been watched all over the world,” the filing says, citing “egregious prosecutorial misconduct.” “The State withheld bombshell exculpatory evidence that it had a constitutional obligation to disclose and that would have resulted in a fundamentally different trial and likely a different outcome.” “In the alternative to an outright dismissal or at least a new trial, the Court should grant Ms.
Gutierrez-Reed’s already filed motion for immediate release pending appeal,” Bowles’ 23-page motion says, covering all the bases.
Click to read the Hannah Gutierrez-Reed motion to dismiss. Stating that there was even more evidence “suppression” than previously known now unearthed, the filing also demands that Kari Morrissey “be removed as Special Prosecutor for the misconduct that has been found, and the violations committed in Ms.
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