‘Rust’ Trial to Start Next Week, as Judge Rejects Last-Minute Bid to Dismiss Case
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The trial of “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will begin as planned next week, as a Santa Fe judge on Wednesday rejected a last-minute bid to throw out the case.
Gutierrez Reed’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, had argued that the case was irreparably tainted when the state turned over hundreds of attorney-client text messages to a key witness.
But Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer refused to dismiss the case, finding that the disclosure was not prejudicial to the defense. Gutierrez Reed is set to go on trial on Feb.
21 on charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence. She is accused of recklessly loading a live bullet into Alec Baldwin’s gun on the set of a Western film, leading to the death of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer.
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