Rust movie armourer sentenced to 18 months in prison

Rust film set armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed in the courtroom at the First Judicial District Courthouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US Feb 22, 2024. A New Mexico judge sentenced the Rust movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez to 18 months in prison on Monday for the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin in 2021.for mistakenly loading a live round into a revolver Baldwin was using on a Santa Fe, New Mexico, movie set.

"I struggle to deal with this repeatedly being called an accident because it was not an accident, it was negligence," said Jen White, a film industry colleague. Gutierrez's lawyer Jason Bowles had requested probation, but prosecutors argued for a full 18 months due to lack of contrition. Prosecutor Kari Morrissey pointed to phone calls by Gutierrez from jail in which she said the jurors were"idiots", the judge had been"paid off", and she continued to blame Baldwin and others for the shooting.On Mar 6, a Santa Fe jury took less than two hours to find her guilty. One juror afterwards said Gutierrez had not done her job to ensure weapons safety on set.

During Gutierrez's three-week trial, prosecutors accused her of unknowingly bringing live Colt .45 rounds onto the set of the low-budget movie, something that has been strictly forbidden for nearly a century under Screen Actors Guild safety guidelines. Film historians such as Alan Rode have looked back to the early part of the last century to find examples of Hollywood cast or crew killed by live rounds accidentally loaded into guns.

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