Hannah Gutierrez-Reed
Will the ‘Rust’ Armorer Walk, Too?
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has filed a motion for a new trial — or for a dismissal of her case — in the wake of new ballistics evidence and “egregious prosecutorial misconduct” that was revealed during Alec Baldwin’s trial last week. “Justice demands that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s conviction be overturned immediately, ensuring that the legal system […]
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How the Shock Alec Baldwin Case Dismissal Impacts Other ‘Rust’ Main Players
Now that a New Mexico judge has dismissed Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the Rust saga moves to a new stage, albeit one that will still keep plenty of lawyers busy. Here’s what’s next for various players involved with the indie Western. Alec Baldwin On July 12, […]
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Alec Baldwin Files Motion to Dismiss ‘Rust’ Case Over New Evidence as Hearing Gets Underway
One mystery has plagued the Rust case from the very beginning: How did a live bullet ever get on a movie set to begin with? Alec Baldwin’s attorneys filed a motion Friday morning to have his involuntary manslaughter case dismissed based on what they say is evidence prosecutors withheld from them that may answer that […]
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Alec Baldwin Denied Dismissal of Involuntary Manslaughter Charge by Judge as Trial Looms
Alec Baldwin was roundly denied the second of four attempts his legal team is bringing to the court seeking to have his involuntary manslaughter charge dismissed for the accidental shooting death of Rust’s cinematographer. A New Mexico judge ruled on Friday that justice will be served when a jury decides the fate of the actor accused of […]
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Alec Baldwin to Face Trial for Involuntary Manslaughter Over ‘Rust’ Shooting
Alec Baldwin will face a trial in July stemming from manslaughter charges over the accidental shooting death of Rust’s cinematographer. Santa Fe judge Mary Sommer on Friday denied Baldwin’s bid to dismiss the indictment, concluding that prosecutors and the grand jury weren’t biased against him. “The court does not find prosecutorial bad faith,” the order […]
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‘Rust’ Armorer’s GoFundMe Shut Down for Violating Rules Against Raising Money for Legal Defense of “Violent Crimes”
GoFundMe has shut down the fundraiser that Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed‘s family started to help pay for the cost of an appeal because it violated the company’s rules against raising money for “the legal defense of alleged financial and violent crimes.” The family had launched the fundraiser ahead of Gutierrez-Reed’s scheduled sentencing for involuntary manslaughter […]
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‘Rust’ Charges: Prosecutors Say Alec Baldwin Shouldn’t Have Pointed Gun
Alec Baldwin has officially been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Charges were formally filed against Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who both face two counts of involuntary manslaughter, on Tuesday after Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced criminal charges against both on Jan. 19. Notably, prosecutors […]
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Alec Baldwin Describes Return to Set for First Time Since ‘Rust’ Shooting as “Strange”
Alec Baldwin described the experience of returning to a movie set as “strange” while recalling the death of Rust director of photography Halyna Hutchins briefly in a four-minute video diary posted to his Instagram. Back working for the first time in nearly four months, the actor recorded and published the video diary Tuesday. In it, […]
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Alec Baldwin Describes What Happened on ‘Rust’ Set: “I Let Go of the Hammer and Bang, the Gun Goes Off”
In his first sit-down interview since the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of his film Rust, an emotional Alec Baldwin gave a detailed timeline of exactly what happened that day, and broke down in tears while remembering Hutchins. Baldwin told the interviewer, Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos, that he […]
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‘Rust’ Armorer Says She Had No Knowledge of Live Rounds on Set
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the tragedy-stricken production Rust, released a statement through her lawyers saying she had “no idea where the live rounds came from” that were recovered by the Santa Fe County sheriff in their investigation into the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and that the whole production was “unsafe.” In a […]
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