I am sentencing you to 18 months of incarceration at
a New Mexico women's correctional facility. Hannah Gutierrez,
the chief weapons handler for the western movie, Rust
was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for her
role in the death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins who was
shot when actor Alec Baldwin was handling a gun during
the film's production in 2021 you alone turned a safe
weapon into a lethal weapon. New Mexico District Court
, Judge Mary Marlowe. So a conditional discharge is
not appropriate and the second option of leaving you in
the detention center would be giving you a pass you
do not deserve. I did not hear you take
accountability in your allocution. It was your attorney that
had to tell the court that you were remorseful in
March. Gutierrez was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for
mistakenly loading a live round into a revolver Baldwin was
using on a movie set in Santa Fe. The
shooting is believed to be the first in modern times
that a member of a film crew or cast was
killed by a live round accidentally loaded into a gun
. Jen White, a film industry colleague of Hutchins
was one of a number of individuals who spoke before
the sentencing was handed down. I've struggled to deal
with this repeatedly being called an accident because it was
not an accident. It was negligence and nothing else
in a video from Keys. The Ukraine born cinematographer's
mother mourned her daughter's death and her young grandson being
left without a mother prosecutor, Carrie Morrissey, who
spoke to reporters afterwards pointed to phone calls by Gutierrez
from jail in which she said the jurors were idiots
. The judge had been paid off and she continued
to blame Baldwin and others for the shooting. The
state has, has approached this prosecution from a standpoint
of compassion for MS Gutierrez for her age, for
her lack of experience and my compassion came to an
end. Gutierrez had already spent a month in Santa
Fe County jail following her conviction, Baldwin's trial is
set for July 10 after a grand jury indicted him
on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in January.