‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Loses Bid To Get Involuntary Manslaughter Case Tossed As Trial Looms
deadline.comA week before Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is set to go to trial for the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the former armorer has failed in her latest effort to have her case dismissed. “I find that the communications are not materially prejudicial to the defendant,” New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer swatted away the defense’s motion that Gutierrez-Reed’s case has been polluted due to the sharing of a detailed report full of private correspondence by the armorer with a state witness. “I’m denying the motion.” Gutierrez-Reed’s trial is set to start on February 21 in Santa Fe.
Though Rust star/producer Alec Baldwin was re-charged with manslaughter claims by a New Mexico grand jury on January 19, a year to the day he was originally charged over Hutchins’ death, no trial date has yet to be scheduled in his case.
Baldwin entered a not guilty plea on January 31. There is a virtual status hearing on his case on the court docket for February 20.
Having plead not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence charges, Gutierrez-Reed faces up to three years behind bars if convicted by a Land of Enchantment jury.
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