In recorded jail calls, “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed complained in regards to the decide, prosecutor and jurors who served on her case and stated she was “railroaded,” in response to a court docket submitting on Friday.
Gutierrez Reed was convicted final month of involuntary manslaughter for loading a stay bullet into Alec Baldwin’s gun, resulting in the demise of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. She is because of be sentenced on Monday in a Santa Fe, N.M. courtroom.
Within the submitting, prosecutor Kari Morrissey requested that she be sentenced to the utmost — 18 months — and stated that the recorded calls present her lack of contrition.
“Ms. Gutierrez continues to disclaim duty and blame others,” Morrissey wrote.
The prosecutor supplied a abstract of the calls, wherein Gutierrez Reed spoke along with her mom, her boyfriend and a protection paralegal.
Based on the submitting, Gutierrez Reed complained that the jurors had been “idiots,” stated that the decide was “paid off” and acknowledged that she has “already been punished for this.”
“Hannah says that folks have accidents and folks die, it’s an unlucky a part of life however it doesn’t imply she must be in jail,” the abstract states.
Based on the abstract, Gutierrez Reed additionally positioned blame on others, together with the set medic and the paramedics who tended to Hutchins, and stated she wished Baldwin and the producers to go to jail.
She was mad that the “entire factor bought pinned on her,” the submitting states, and that the “entire factor has been a personality assault on her.”
Gutierrez Reed additionally instructed her confidants that she was doing properly in jail. Based on the prosecutor’s abstract, Gutierrez Reed stated that “some days she actually likes it in there.”
Morrissey additionally requested the decide to designate Gutierrez Reed’s crime as a “critical violent offense,” which might restrict the quantity her sentence might be decreased for good habits. Involuntary manslaughter is just not robotically thought of a “critical violent offense,” however the decide has discretion to deal with it that manner.
Gutierrez Reed’s attorneys have requested that she be sentenced to probation. The protection submitted a number of letters from her associates indicating that she does have regret for her half within the tragedy.
Her father, Thell Reed, launched a GoFundMe final month to assist defray the prices of her enchantment.
“It’s fairly clear, the judicial scales in Hannah’s case are unfair and unbalanced,” he wrote. “Justice for Halyna doesn’t imply injustice for Hannah.”
Because the Hollywood Reporter was first to report, GoFundMe shut down the fundraiser this week, pursuant to a coverage that bars fundraising for authorized protection in opposition to costs associated to violent crimes.
