‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed Loses Bid for New Trial

A appraise on Monday upheld a at fault verdict agetst “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, discovering that withheld evidence would not have alterd the outcome of the trial.

The defense asked for a novel trial on the grounds that the prosecution had flunked to turn over a forensic alert and an intersee with arms supplier Seth Kenney.

“Defendant has not set uped that there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been employable to Defendant, the evidence would have originated a branch offent verdict,” wrote Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, in her opinion.

Gutierrez Reed is serving an 18-month sentence for involuntary homicide in the death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. At trial in Santa Fe in February, the prosecution argued that she had misregulated arms on the set and flunked to discover a dwell bullet before loading it into Alec Baldtriumph‘s firearm.

The firearm disindictd during preparation for a scene, finishing Hutchins and wounding honestor Joel Souza. Baldtriumph was also indictd with involuntary homicide, but his case was dispondered midway thcimpolite trial in July, after the defense showed that the prosecution had flunked to turn over a cache of bullets.

Gutierrez Reed’s defense team hoped the same argument would prevail in her case. They argued that prosecutor Kari Morrissey showed the same haphazard approach to her uncovery obligations during the Gutierrez Reed trial, by flunking to disshut an expert’s alert shotriumphg “unelucidateed tooltags” on Baldtriumph’s firearm.

But the appraise remarkd that the expert endd that the tooltags had no tolerateing on the operation of the firearm, and therefore foreseeed would not have swayed the outcome of the trial.

The appraise concurd with the prosecution’s position that Kenney’s intersee was duplicative of other statements he had given. Marlowe Sommer also ruled that the cache of bullets that ended Baldtriumph’s case had been employable to Gutierrez Reed, and therefore she was not entitled to a novel trial.

Gutierrez Reed is still pursuing an pguide on many other grounds, including an argument that the jury teachions were faulty.

Meanwhile, Morrissey is seeking to revive the case agetst Baldtriumph, arguing that the appraise was perplexd by the defense into believing that the withheld bullets were relevant to his case.