![]() ![]() Memes are okay, but moderators will use their discretion if/when things get out of hand. Content posted must be directly related to Rust.The Associated Press contributed to this report. “We were responding to false allegations against Hannah.” “Our statements were made based on facts and information that we had and have continued to investigate,” Bowles said. Suggestions that someone else may have planted live ammunition was an attempt to “place blame on other crew members or co-defendants,” Morrissey wrote.īowles on Wednesday rejected the allegation that he had acted improperly. New Mexico rules of professional conduct forbid lawyers from spreading false information to create “a clear and present danger of prejudicing the proceeding,” according to the filing. During that broadcast, Bowles said: “We’re afraid that could have been what happened here, that somebody intended to sabotage this set with a live round, intentionally placed in a box of dummies.” The prosecutor pointed to several TV interviews, including with ABC’s “Good Morning America” in November 2021 - two weeks after the shooting. She said Bowles has appeared on numerous TV shows, on which he has spread “unfounded conspiracy theories” about sabotage on set in an improper attempt “to try to taint the jury in favor of his client.” Morrissey blasted Gutierrez Reed’s attorneys. She also suggested there was evidence to support the theory that Gutierrez Reed herself may be responsible for introducing the live bullets on set and if so, more charges may follow.īut they offered no specifics in the filing as to what that evidence might be. “The current prosecution team is making a herculean effort to determine the identity of the person(s) responsible for the live rounds being introduced to the movie set,” Morrissey wrote. The prosecutors acknowledged the unanswered question of where the live rounds found on set came from. Sheriff’s deputies also found other live bullets had been co-mingled with “dummies” in Gutierrez Reed’s fanny pack, where she kept the ammunition for the guns in the western. In the filing, Morrissey wrote that the collapse of the gun did not diminish the fact that Gutierrez Reed had loaded it with at least one live bullet. ![]() ![]() Morrissey and Lewis have disputed those claims in their response, saying “nothing about this prosecution has or will be selective.” They also argued that the “selective prosecution” of Gutierrez Reed was a violation of the equal protection clause of the U.S. They said that amounted to destruction of evidence and a violation of the court’s rules of discovery. The defense lawyers contend permanent damage was done to the gun by FBI testing before the defense could examine it. Mary Carmack-Altwies and the initial special prosecutor she appointed, Andrea Reeb, “both used the tragic film set accident that resulted in the death of Halyna Hutchins as an opportunity to advance their personal interests.” Gutierrez Reed’s attorneys had argued in their motion that the prosecution was “tainted by improper political motives” and that 1st Judicial Dist. The items were sent to the state’s independent expert for further testing.īaldwin was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal in an old wooden church on the New Mexico film set in October 2021 when it went off, killing her and wounding Joel Souza, the film’s director. The gun fell apart during testing last year at the FBI lab in Virginia, according to court documents. In the filing, Morrissey said they were awaiting results of an additional analysis of the gun and its broken sear, a part of the trigger mechanism. Since then, the two Albuquerque attorneys have been trying to salvage the criminal prosecutions following a series of missteps by the previous team. Lewis, were appointed to the case in March after the district attorney stepped down. Morrissey and her legal partner, Jason J. That’s when the judge is expected to decide whether there’s probable cause for the case against Gutierrez Reed to move forward to trial. New Mexico 1st Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer previously scheduled a preliminary hearing for Gutierrez Reed in early August. ![]()
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