The weapons supervisor within the deadly taking pictures of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie Rust pleaded responsible Monday to a separate prison cost of carrying a gun right into a licensed liquor institution.
Film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed agreed to vary her plea to responsible on the cost in trade for a lowered sentence of 18 months supervised probation.
Decide T Glenn Ellington authorized the settlement that enables Gutierrez-Reed to start probation whereas serving out an 18-month jail time period at a New Mexico state penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter within the deadly taking pictures of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Within the Rust case, prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing reside ammunition onto the film set and for failing to comply with primary gun security protocols.
Gutierrez-Reed shuffled into the Santa Fe courtroom Monday in a beige jumpsuit, handcuffs and ankle shackles to vary her plea to responsible and waive her proper to trial.
“I’d similar to to apologize to the courtroom and thanks to your judgment as we speak,” she stated.
The case stems from proof that a couple of weeks earlier than Rust started filming in October 2021, Gutierrez-Reed carried a gun right into a downtown bar in Santa Fe the place firearms are prohibited.
Particular prosecutor Kari Morrissey stated Gutierrez-Reed filmed herself within the lavatory of the bar with a handgun – explaining how she snuck within the prohibited firearm in a video that was obtained when authorities searched the armorer’s cellphone in the course of the Rust investigation.
Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March at trial of involuntary manslaughter within the deadly taking pictures of Hutchins. She has an attraction of that conviction pending in a better courtroom.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for Rust, was pointing a gun at Hutchins throughout a rehearsal for the movie when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
In July, Decide Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed an involuntary manslaughter case towards Baldwin midway by means of a trial based mostly on the withholding of proof by police and prosecutors from the protection. Morrissey has since requested the choose to rethink.
Beneath phrases of her plea settlement, Gutierrez-Reed is prohibited whereas on probation from possessing firearms, consuming alcohol or medication, and should pay $180 in charges whereas submitting a pattern of her DNA to a prison database and finishing an habit remedy program.
Protection lawyer Jason Bowles stated the settlement makes it attainable for Gutierrez-Reed to be launched from jail as quickly as June 2025 to finish probation in Arizona with out getting an extra felony conviction on her report.
Earlier than being led away, Gutierrez-Reed blew kisses towards the courtroom gallery the place her mom, Stacy Reed, was seated.
Reed stated she was grateful her daughter can start to satisfy new parole necessities previous to launch from jail.
“She’s not gotten a good shake from the start,” stated Reed, who traveled from Arizona for the listening to.
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