The armorer faces up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western.

A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” with her sentencing scheduled for Monday in a New Mexico state court.

Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and has been held for more than a month at a county jail on the outskirts of Santa Fe.

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

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Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of “Rust” where it was expressly prohibited and for failing to follow basic gun safety protocols. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for about three hours in reaching its verdict.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Yeah. That is extremely disturbing to read. I’m actually kind of shocked, to be honest.

    EDITED TO DELETE most of what I originally wrote: the above is just a very poorly written article. The actual use of the phone calls was much more in line with what one would expect in fairness to both sides:

    The sentencing by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer came after prosecutors released summaries of calls that Ms. Gutierrez-Reed had made from jail, where she was sent after her conviction.

    Prosecutors used the calls, during which Ms. Gutierrez-Reed calls the jurors in her case “idiots,” to argue that she should receive the highest possible sentence. The call summaries include Ms. Gutierrez-Reed saying that the judge was on a “power trip” and alleging, without evidence, that the judge was “getting paid off.”

    Ms. Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers wrote in court papers that those jail calls, which they characterized as displaying “frustration at the system,” did not detract from her “heartbreak and extreme sadness over what occurred on the ‘Rust’ set.”

    So it turns out that the defendant is not the brightest bulb, and chose to not only openly discuss her case but to denigrate the judge on phone calls she knew were being recorded, and the statements were not taken out of context but were provided in summaries to all parties. The facts pretty much negate everything I had to say, lol.

    NY Times: ‘Rust’ Armorer Is Sentenced to 18 Months for Involuntary Manslaughter

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