A judge is planning to hear arguments in court Thursday over whether to dismiss a criminal conviction against a movie armorer in the shooting death of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has requested a retrial or dismissal of her March conviction for involuntary manslaughter in response to allegations that prosecutors failed to share evidence including ammunition that might have been exculpatory in the shooting death that occurred on the set of the Western movie “Rust” in 2021.

Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer is reconsidering the armorer’s conviction after throwing out an involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin midtrial on similar grounds.

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    3 months ago

    If she walks it’s not going to be because she has connections, it’s going to be because the prosecutor engaged in misconduct.

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      3 months ago

      Exactly. This whole incident has been treated as a political windfall by multiple prosecutors. The reason number 3017 why prosecutors are generally bad people.