Berliner Tageblatt - 'Rust' armorer loses bid for new trial

Hannah Gutierrez was in charge of weapons on the set of the budget Western film when a gun Baldwin was holding went off, killing the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding its director.

The 27-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter for accidentally loading Baldwin's prop gun with a live round.

Baldwin's own trial spectacularly collapsed in July when it emerged that prosecutors had not turned over a batch of bullets that detectives had found during their investigation into the October 2021 tragedy in New Mexico.

Gutierrez, also known as Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was already in the process of appealing her conviction prior to the Baldwin trial.

But her lawyers then filed an expedited motion for a new trial or dismissal of charges due to "severe and ongoing discovery violations by the state."

That application was dismissed in a written ruling issued Monday.

"Defendant has not established that there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been available to Defendant, the evidence would have produced a different verdict," Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer wrote.

J.Fankhauser--BTB