Gutierrez-Reed was discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter following the capturing of 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins in October 2021, at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer of the movie, was pointing a gun at Ms Hutchins throughout a rehearsal when the weapon went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza.
Alec Baldwin practising drawing his revolver on the set of the Rust movie (Santa Fe County Sheriff/PA)
The actor pleaded not responsible after he was re-charged with involuntary manslaughter in January this 12 months, earlier than legal professionals filed to dismiss the cost – a movement of which is but to be determined. He’s at present scheduled to face a trial in July.
A jury convicted Gutierrez-Reed in March following a two-week trial, and on Monday she was sentenced to the utmost 18 months of “incarceration at a New Mexico girls’s correctional facility”.
“The phrase regret, a deep remorse coming from a way of guilt for previous wrongs – that’s not you,” Choose Mary Marlowe Sommer mentioned in her sentencing remarks.
“I discover that what you probably did constitutes a severe violent offence, it was dedicated in a bodily violent method. A deadly gunshot performed along with your recklessness within the face of information that your acts have been moderately prone to end in severe hurt.
“You have been the armourer, the one which stood between a protected weapon and a weapon that would kill somebody. You alone turned a protected weapon right into a deadly weapon.
“However for you, Ms Hutchins can be alive, a husband would have his associate and a bit boy would have his mom.”
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, middle, along with her legal professional Jason Bowles, left, and paralegal Carmella Sisneros put together for a sentencing listening to in state district court docket in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal through AP)
The sentence listening to got here two weeks after the decide denied Gutierrez-Reed’s emergency request for a brand new trial and launch from custody, the place she was taken after the responsible verdict.
The court docket heard a number of emotional witness statements, together with from Ms Hutchins’ mom Olga Solovey, father Anatolii Androsovych and sister Svetlana Zemko.
A video interview of Ms Solovey, who lives and works in Kyiv as a nurse caring for these wounded within the Ukrainian struggle, noticed her relive the 3am name she obtained from Ms Hutchins’ husband Matthew, informing her of the demise of her daughter in October 2021.
“The day of her demise ruined my whole life…each minute I wait till I’ll meet her once more,” she mentioned of Ms Hutchins, who hoped to have her personal daughter following the beginning of her son Andros.
Whereas her former Marine officer father mentioned it was indescribable to precise the “soul-crushing ache that I reside by means of every single day”.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed throughout her two-week trial (Luis Sanchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican through AP)
“The fixed state of stress, the turmoil of my soul has drained my bodily power and triggered an abrupt decline of my well being with continued bodily ache in my coronary heart,” he mentioned in an announcement learn to the court docket.
Rust director Souza additionally appeared on a video hyperlink to learn an announcement, telling the court docket: “I need the ache to go away, I need to be who I used to be earlier than all this occurred and above all, I need Halyna to be again house along with her husband and son in the home she by no means bought to reside in.”
“The final two-and-a-half years are troublesome to place into phrases,” Souza added.
“What it has performed to me and the burden it has positioned on me, each emotionally and bodily are my personal burdens and I feel I’ll select to maintain them that manner right this moment.
“What I’ll say is one second the world made sense, and the following second it didn’t and it nonetheless doesn’t. And I don’t know if it ever will once more.
“What I really need I can’t have, I need everybody broken by Ms Gutierrez-Reed’s failures that day to seek out peace, I need this entire factor to not have been consumed by the world as some sick type of mass leisure.”
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed throughout her sentence listening to (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal through AP)
Gutierrez-Reed, who appeared emotional at factors throughout the listening to, took to the stand earlier than her sentencing asking the decide for probation saying “I urge you, please don’t give me extra time”.
“I’m saddened by the best way the media sensationalised our traumatic tragedy and portrayed me as a whole monster, which has really been the full reverse of what has been in my coronary heart,” she mentioned.
“After I took on Rust, I used to be younger and I used to be naive, however I took my job as severely as I knew the best way to, regardless of not having correct time, sources and staffing. When issues bought powerful, I simply did my greatest to deal with it.
“…The jury has discovered me partially at fault for this god terrible tragedy, however that doesn’t make me a monster, that makes me human.”
Actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the movie Rust (Santa Fe County Sheriff/PA)
Baldwin was initially charged in January 2023, however these fees have been formally dismissed three months later.
Earlier in January 2024, particular prosecutors introduced the case earlier than a grand jury in Santa Fe after receiving a brand new evaluation of the gun, and Baldwin was re-charged.
The indictment accuses Baldwin of involuntary manslaughter by means of negligent use of a firearm, and another cost of involuntary manslaughter “with out due warning or circumspection”.
Baldwin beforehand mentioned he pulled again the hammer, however not the set off, and the gun fired.
Legal professionals for Baldwin requested a decide to dismiss the cost, accusing prosecutors of “violating practically each rule within the e book” in buying the indictment, whereas prosecutors claimed the movement to dismiss was “predictable false, deceptive, and histrionic misrepresentation of the details”.
A decide is but to present a ruling on the movement.
The filming of Rust resumed final 12 months in Montana, below an settlement with the cinematographer’s widower Matthew Hutchins that made him an government producer.
