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Rust weapons supervisor’s involuntary manslaughter conviction upheld

By Editorial Board Published October 1, 2024 3 Min Read
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Rust weapons supervisor’s involuntary manslaughter conviction upheld

A decide has upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of the weapons supervisor for the movie Rust.

Hannah Gutierrez, 27, who is almost six months into an 18-month sentence over the deadly capturing on set of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, had requested a retrial or dismissal following allegations that police and prosecutors withheld potential proof.

Nonetheless, Choose Mary Marlowe Sommer upheld her conviction on Monday, saying Gutierrez’s attorneys had failed to ascertain the result of the trial would have been any totally different if the proof had been out there.

The New Mexico decide additionally rejected a request from Gutierrez that she be launched from custody. She at the moment has an attraction of the conviction pending in a better court docket.

Earlier this summer time, an involuntary manslaughter trial towards actor Alec Baldwin was dramatically dismissed by the identical decide after simply three days on account of issues over the proof.

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The actor was holding a gun that went off on the set of the Western movie Rust in New Mexico in 2021, killing cinematographer Ms Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

The 66-year-old actor denied involuntary manslaughter, sustaining he didn’t pull the gun’s set off and that others on the set have been answerable for security checks on the weapon.

Halyna Hutchins.
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Halyna Hutchins. Pic:Shutterstock

Baldwin’s defence staff learnt that the Santa Fe sheriff’s workplace had taken possession of reside rounds as potential proof earlier this 12 months, on the identical day Gutierrez was convicted.

Investigators didn’t record these reside rounds within the Rust file, nor have been they disclosed to defence attorneys. Prosecutors stated the ammunition was not related to the case and was not hidden.

Kari Morrissey, who’s the lead prosecutor in each the Baldwin and Gutierrez circumstances, claimed Baldwin’s case was “improperly dismissed,” and stated the decide “misunderstood” the proof.

Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez for unwittingly bringing reside ammunition onto the set of Rust and for failing to comply with fundamental gun security protocols.

She was acquitted at trial of allegations she tampered with proof within the Rust investigation.

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