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Re: Rust shooting: Prosecutors charge armourer with evidence tampering

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The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
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> Mighty Wannabe wrote
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>> The murdering bastard Alec Baldwin is going to get away with it.

Prosecutors have charged the Rust film armourer with evidence tampering in 
connection to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has already been charged with involuntary 
manslaughter.

She will face an additional charge in relation to "the transfer of 
narcotics to another person", prosecutors said.

Ms Gutierrez-Reed will plead not guilty to the new charge, her lawyer 
said, calling it "retaliatory and vindictive".

In court filings, prosecutors allege Ms Gutierrez-Reed transferred 
narcotics to another person on 21 October 2021, the day Ms Hutchins was 
killed, in order to "prevent the apprehension, prosecution or conviction 
of herself", Reuters news agency reported.

Last week, in separate court filings, prosecutors argued Ms Gutierrez-Reed 
had probably been hung over during the day of the shooting because she had 
drunk alcohol and smoked marijuana in the evenings while the film was 
being made.

Ms Gutierrez-Reed's lawyer has said prosecutors have mishandled the case 
and resorted to "character assassination". Her attorneys have filed a 
motion seeking to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge brought 
against her.

It comes as the lead investigator for the Santa Fe District Attorney's 
office, who is set to step down from his post next month, criticises the 
sheriff's office for the way they investigated the shooting and the 
conclusions they reached in their October 2022 report.

"The conduct of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office during and after 
their initial investigation is reprehensible and unprofessional," Robert 
Shilling wrote in an email sent to colleagues on Tuesday.

"Not I or 200 more proficient investigators than I can/could clean up the 
mess delivered to your office in October 2022."

The criticism was made public by Ms Gutierrez-Reed's lawyer, who was 
accidentally sent it by prosecutors. The BBC has reached out to the Santa 
Fe County Sheriff's Office for comment. Mr Shilling told Reuters he 
declined to comment.

The latest court filing comes two months after prosecutors dropped charges 
against actor Alec Baldwin, just two weeks before his trial was set to 
begin.

He had been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter after Ms 
Hutchins was killed by a live bullet fired from a prop gun he was using 
during the filming of Rust in New Mexico.

New Mexico Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey said "new facts were 
revealed" that required further investigation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65993965

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