Days after New Mexico’s case versus Alec Baldwin collapsed amidst claims of proof concealment in the “Rust” shooting, armorer Hannah Gutierrez asked a judge to dismiss her case as well.
Gutierrez’s legalrepresentative, Jason Bowles, submitted a 23-page movement late Tuesday asking that either Gutierrez’s uncontrolled murder conviction be reversed or that she get a brand-new trial due to “severe and continuous discovery offenses by the state.” Bowles declared the procedures versus Gutierrez were unreasonable duetothefactthat the state likewise kept proof in her case.
Gutierrez is presently serving an 18-month sentence for her function in the shooting death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the low-budget western set on Oct. 21,2021
The relocation comes as New Mexico’s legal world reels from disclosures made throughout a remarkable hearing on Friday, in which New Mexico First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the felony wrongdoer charge versus Baldwin — suddenly ending the star’s prominent trial.
The judge endedupbeing alarmed after Baldwin’s lawyers declared misbehavior, consistingof declared collusion inbetween the districtattorney and Santa Fe County constable’s deputies to hide possible proof — a bag of ammo — from defense lawyers.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, center, concerns unique districtattorney Kari Morrissey, 2nd from left, about proof not turned over to defense lawyer Alex Spiro, 2nd from best, throughout star Alec Baldwin’s trial July12
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A bag of cartridges that a retired law enforcement officer, Troy Teske, had turned over to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in March after Gutierrez’s trial ended is at problem. Teske, a pal of Gutierrez’s stepfather Thell Reed, had used the proof to districtattorneys late last fall, however unique districtattorney Kari T. Morrissey decreased.
Morrissey has stated that, after looking at a image of the cartridges, she identified they did not match the live “Rust” ammo. The constable’s criminaloffense scene specialist likewise affirmed last week that the bullets were not like those discovered on “Rust.”
However, after Marlowe Sommer puton blue latex gloves and opened the proof bag in a remarkable hearing on Friday, it was exposed that 3 of the shell housings were marked with Starline Brass, which was an determining particular of the “Rust” bullets.
Despite cautions from the judge that she did not have to affirm, Morrissey took the witness stand to provide sworn testament about her dealingwith of the Teske ammo and the Baldwin case.
Shortly before, Morrissey’s co-counsel, Erlinda O.