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I am sentencing you to 18 months of incarceration at

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a New Mexico women's correctional facility. Hannah Gutierrez,

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the chief weapons handler for the western movie, Rust

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was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for her

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role in the death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins who was

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shot when actor Alec Baldwin was handling a gun during

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the film's production in 2021 you alone turned a safe

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weapon into a lethal weapon. New Mexico District Court

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, Judge Mary Marlowe. So a conditional discharge is

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not appropriate and the second option of leaving you in

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the detention center would be giving you a pass you

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do not deserve. I did not hear you take

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accountability in your allocution. It was your attorney that

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had to tell the court that you were remorseful in

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March. Gutierrez was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for

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mistakenly loading a live round into a revolver Baldwin was

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using on a movie set in Santa Fe. The

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shooting is believed to be the first in modern times

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that a member of a film crew or cast was

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killed by a live round accidentally loaded into a gun

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. Jen White, a film industry colleague of Hutchins

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was one of a number of individuals who spoke before

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the sentencing was handed down. I've struggled to deal

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with this repeatedly being called an accident because it was

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not an accident. It was negligence and nothing else

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in a video from Keys. The Ukraine born cinematographer's

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mother mourned her daughter's death and her young grandson being

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left without a mother prosecutor, Carrie Morrissey, who

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spoke to reporters afterwards pointed to phone calls by Gutierrez

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from jail in which she said the jurors were idiots

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. The judge had been paid off and she continued

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to blame Baldwin and others for the shooting. The

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state has, has approached this prosecution from a standpoint

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of compassion for MS Gutierrez for her age, for

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her lack of experience and my compassion came to an

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end. Gutierrez had already spent a month in Santa

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Fe County jail following her conviction, Baldwin's trial is

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set for July 10 after a grand jury indicted him

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on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in January.