“Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to the utmost penalty of 18 months in jail in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, court docket Monday for the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after being discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter final month.
The decide referenced Gutierrez-Reed’s lack of regret forward of handing down the sentence.
“Your legal professional needed to inform the court docket you had been remorseful,” she stated.
Following the sentence she stated, “you had been the armorer who stood between a protected weapon and a weapon that might kill somebody. For you, she can be alive.”
Prosecutors sought the utmost penalty of 18 months in state jail.
Firstly of the sentencing listening to, New Mexico particular prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey stated that she reviewed Gutierrez-Reed’s telephone calls from jail to tell what sentence size to suggest to the decide. Morrissey said that the calls made by Gutierrez-Reed “inform us who she actually is” and that she doesn’t take accountability for the Hutchins’ dying and that she “chooses to position blame on the witnesses that testified towards her, me, you.”
Gutierrez-Reed, who was wearing a khaki jail uniform with a long-sleeved white t-shirt beneath, could possibly be seen wiping away tears as Hutchins’ agent Craig Mizrahi learn a sufferer impression assertion to the court docket through the sentencing listening to.
“Rust” director Joel Souza, who was additionally injured through the incident, learn a sufferer impression assertion just about. He stated the final two and half years have been “tough to place into phrases” and that “I would like everybody broken by Ms. Reed’s failures that day to search out peace … I would like the ache to go away … She had a expertise for all times, she was a touchstone for all who knew her, and people of us who had been fortunate sufficient to have shared in her fleeting time on this planet had been higher for it.”
Hutchins’ mom spoke in a pre-recorded video filmed in her native Ukraine. In it she sobbed as she recalled her life with out her daughter saying, “It’s extraordinarily tough with out her.”
“There are not any phrases to explain, time doesn’t heal,” she added.
The prosecutors concluded their presentation with a slideshow of pictures of Hutchins set to Pink Floyd’s “Want You Have been Right here.”
Gutierrez-Reed was crying as she addressed the court docket asking for probation saying that Hutchins “my coronary heart aches for Hutchins and her family and friends.”
She added that Hutchins “will all the time be an inspiration” and that her “coronary heart goes out.”
“I urge you please don’t give me extra time,” Gutierrez-Reed stated.
Following Gutierrez-Reed’s conviction, the decide ordered the 26-year-old to be held in police custody pending her sentencing. She was discovered not responsible of tampering with proof.
In recorded jail telephone conversations along with her mom, boyfriend and her legal professional’s paralegal, Gutierrez-Reed known as jurors “idiots” and “a–holes” whereas complaining in regards to the size of time it took them to deliberate, based on a current submitting by prosecutors.
Additionally within the telephone calls, she stated that she wouldn’t testify in actor Alec Baldwin’s upcoming prison trial if subpoenaed and that she desires him to go to jail, too.
The just about two-week prison trial centered on the taking pictures on the “Rust” movie set in 2021, when Baldwin held a prop gun that fired a reside spherical of ammunition, killing Hutchins, 42. The bullet additionally injured Souza.
Through the prosecution’s closing arguments, particular prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey advised the jury that Gutierrez-Reed “was negligent, she was careless, she was inconsiderate.”
However Gutierrez-Reed’s legal professional, Jason Bowles, stated the prosecutors had not proved past an inexpensive doubt that Gutierrez-Reed was chargeable for taking reside rounds onto the set and alleged that Baldwin was in the end chargeable for Hutchins’ dying.
He additionally doubled down, saying “What brought about her to move was Mr. Baldwin going off-script and pointing the weapon.”
Bowles added that “the one final act is the pointing of that weapon. Ms. Gutierrez wasn’t within the church, she didn’t level that weapon, she didn’t pull it.”
Baldwin, who’s charged with involuntary manslaughter, is ready to face trial in July.
