LIVE: The Baldwin Film Trial (NM v. Hannah Gutierrez Reed) - SENTENCING
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 14. 04. 2024
- The State of New Mexico charged Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on set the Rust film production, with two alternative counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of evidence tampering. On March 7, 2024, she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and acquitted of the evidence tampering charge. This is the sentencing stream!
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On October 21, 2021, the indie western film "Rust" was being produced on location in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Actor/producer Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a cross-draw of a prop revolver. When he pulled the hammer back and released it, a live round left the revolver and passed through cinematographer Halyna Hutchins before landing in director Joel Souza. Souza was injured, but later recovered. Hutchins, on the other hand, died that day. Criminal charges were filed against Baldwin as well as against assistant director David Hall and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. Hall took a plea deal, and Baldwin's case is in the pretrial litigation process. This trial is the case against Hannah Gutierrez-Reed alone.
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Just a note! At 1:53:50 - 1:54:47 we got a copyright claim because the prosecution played a photo powerpoint slideshow set to a very poor quality audio of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." If you get to that point in the stream and are perplexed why I'm commenting on sound you can't hear, it's because I agreed to have CZcams mute the music on the back end to resolve the copyright claim.
Do they get a strike too?
Lmao, but suprisingly fair from youtube compared to what they do usually...
Sounds like the judge might have considered the 12-month sentence if not for Hannah's dumb phone calls.
Thanks đđ Hannah is the best evidence against herself both in the trial and the sentencing.
"I'm sorry to the film industry" yikes... How could her counsel have okay-ed that statement HGR gave?
Sheâs probably terrified that sheâs dented the movie industry profits. Itâs a sick world I can understand her thinking
@@krob2327 youâre 180 to her thinking, the dent was likely her point. Think about it in reverse logic
Don't forget that her father is still quite famous in the same industry. She is most likely protecting him and possibly a future career for herself. I don't think there's any chance for her, but I think she might think she has.
Thank you, Alyte. Such good coverage!
This is some tough stuff. If Baldwin doesn't get jail time after virtually taking no responsibility for this event, though he's a producer of the film with years of experience handling guns on movie sets and the one who actually pointed and fired the weapon (it being in good working order, apparently), I think I'm going to be a bit disillusioned with this process.
Yeah, regardless of this result, I still feel the producer is more responsible. If he isn't then they will continue to hire the cheapest safety teams.
@@wildweasel3001how is it an expectation that because someone is paid little that they will disregard safety and the sanctity of life? There's no connection between the two.
@@nanciatnyte with anything, you pay cheaper you get cheaper. In terms of jobs like that, cheaper tends to mean less experienced. An experienced armorer would have killed a lot of bad habits and honestly might not have even stayed on the job if the alleged stuff is true regarding the environment that was allowed.
@@RBiko-wf3eu I would agree if cheaper correlated with being inexperienced or unemployed. Many experienced people are simply underpaid and many often are also overworked-up to an old including pilots. They're complaining about pay but not crashing planes. There are nannies and au pairs who are caregivers for new borns and who work for peanuts. There's something to be said for not overworking people-she was doing the job of two persons. Surgical residents and pilots have errors when they are overworked and do double shifts without adequate rest in between.
There's a myth of meritocracy that you haven't parsed out of your argument.
@nanciatnyte except "cheaper" as in a scale compared to the average. Your looking at "cheap" compared to the cost of living and society, I'm talking about it in terms of the cost of this specific job coupled with Baldwins sets seemingly cutting many corners to keep a small budget. Her doing 2 or 3 jobs while still lacking experience also speaks to him wanting to save money. Like I said, I think you are thinking more in terms of people being underpaid (very true). I'm talking about it from the employer side, who went a specific direction when hiring a service.
I thought that the crying was real in the beginning, even if partly for herself. However, when she did not cry when the mother spoke, I no longer doubted her insincerity.
I understand the sentencing for her part in this situation. The judge put her down like a boss. 0 remorse shown.
The only part I disagree with is the label of "serious violent offender". It makes it sound like she went out of her way to kill someone, and that she is a danger to the public in general. But I get that is probably a required label under the law. Either way. Correct decision for the sentence. Wrong decision to talk shit on prison calls and not take accountability. LOL.
Remember when the expert pointed the gun at the judge in a gun safety case đź
Love legal bytes reaction to the judge đ right there with ya
Didn't help herself at all did she. I suppose she's just not very bright.
the phone call doubled her sentence.
Loose lips sink ships.
I can see Baldwin taking notes, I must say the word remorse, I must say remorse I must say remorse...
He'll have a 5+ person professional writing team on the payroll already.
@@hkr667 Just calling it here, his legal team is going to steamroll Kari. She's great at cross but weak on direct and got away with a lot this trial. His team is going to shut that down faster than the speed of light.
@@Haarschmuckfachgeschafttadpole I agree. Kari might have a chance, but not with what she showed in this trial. She got away because Bowles was weak.
How the hell can you make 200 calls in county jail.
Defense should have told her that her statement was insufficient.
He probably did but at the end of the day a client will do what they want. Especially someone in court for the first time who is unfamiliar with the process.
Replay crew! So interesting!! Was excited to see what HGR had to say for herself and.... to be honest her speech fell flat on its face and felt ://
Not showing remorse in your allocution is one of the dumbest things you can do. Even if you're trying to preserve your case for appeal there's ways you can express remorse without making it about yourself.
I liked the sentencing till the very end. There is no such thing as a safe weapon. If everyone treated it that way, this tragedy would likely not have happened. She treated the guns and ammo as "safe." The AD treated it as safe, and Alec baldwin certainly treated as safe. This happened because people somehow got it into their heads that their is such a thing as a safe firearm.
The best way to be safe is to assume the firearm isn't. You do what you can to make it as safe as possible, but never assume that it is completely safe.
The slide show was when this hearing jumped the shark
Legal Bytes, " I don't mean to keep pausing during these statements. But did you see the mess on the kitchen counter?"
Me: "WTF!?! Who cares about the trash. His friend was killed."
Read the room, Hannah. Remorseless and defiant.
At 29:00 - re: body language....we need Spidey !
unless she admitted to a crime, I do think its unfair to use jail calls as some gotcha. Like this is where people are gonna vent. If she was on the calls saying "its all my fault", they would probably look to add time.
This girl makes me so mad! When one of Halyna's friends was giving their statement Hannah was bouncing her shoulders up and down as if she was bawling. Girl please. Just stop. She doesnt feel any remorse and its disgusting. You could see her self righteousness on her face throughout the whole trial.
I don't know. I kinda feel like we are sentencing people based on if we find them likeable not based on what they did or risk to society. That's not justice it's Popularism
@@wildweasel3001 She deserved her sentence because of her negligence. It just so happens that she is also an unlikable person.
@@sweet_peaThatâs not what the prosecutor argued. They argued her phone calls make her âextra guiltyâ. This wasnât an intentional homicide where she killed an ex lover and tried to cover it up. Thereâs some serious moral ambiguity to this case. On any given day another jury could have acquitted her. So to say she ought to have instantly changed her tune the moment the jury found her guilty is, in my opinion, totally unfair. I think she genuinely doesnât feel culpable in the way she feels she been portrayed. She has her reasons for feeling that way, and I wouldnât be so quick to discount them all.
Ms Hutchins husband made a pretty hypocritical comment- he stated that the producers shouldnât have hired her because she wasnât ready to handle this level of responsibilityâŠbut that the instant they hired her she should have handled it anyway.
We canât have our cake and eat it too. Youâre only allowed to eat each slice of cake once lol
And the prosecutor argued for extra jail time because of her phone calls. Which has nothing to do with her culpability at the time of the incident. Itâs egregious and unnecessary when thereâs such complexity and ambiguity to this case.
Your comment about not liking the way she was moving her shoulders is fine, but I kinda feel like if sheâd stood there and expressed her honest feelings with her body and expression (which we actually donât know she didnâtâŠwe canât read her mindâŠ) youâd be condemning her for that too.
Just some things to consider.
Where can I hear them?
@@wildweasel3001 It's called "internet justice" and it's very dangerous. People are horrible, horrible judge of characters. Also, if she would have cried actual tears those same people would have commented "oh look at those crocodile tears, she just wants sympathy, what a monster".
18 months is nothing, she might even prefer prison life
I love Keri
She was good but Bowles let her get away with too many objectionable acts. Baldwins high paid legal team is going to be pretty vicious in shutting down anything objectionable. She struggled on direct and often relied on redirect to get some things in. Bowles never really objected so he can't even appeal on those grounds even though her arguments were improper.
Do they have curling irons and makeup in jail?
31:50 is Baldwin an a-list actor? The answer is no. If her was, why did all of the films he starred in the early-mid 1990s, bomb at the box office, not counting those he piggybacked off such as Michael Keaton and Sean Connery. Piggybacking off other actors makes you a B-list
Um, objection your honor, facts not in evidence? They're claiming Hannah brought the live rounds. That was never proven. In fact, it seemed like her lawyer made a great case that the live rounds were supplied by Seth Kenney.
But she still shouldâve checked them
They explained it in court that Hannah admitted to supplying the box she loaded Baldwinâs gun from. Photos in evidence show the live rounds were on set two days before Kenneyâs, with the same foam insert and live round(s)
Either way live rounds got into set and it was her job to check them. She even admitted in the jail calls she didnât need to check each round.
Agreed
Yeah judges do that all the time in sentencing đŹ they often correct it in the written record after everyone stops caring
Ms Hutchins husband totally contradicted himself. He lays the blame at the feet of producers who handed her a job she wasnât prepared for. I do think that she ought to have known she wasnât prepared yet for such responsibility, but HE doesnât say that. He says that the producers were at fault for putting her in that position, then immediately contradicts himself and says âBUTââŠ.âonce she accepted she should have taken it more seriously.â
Well, surely the reason the producers ought to have hired someone more experienced is PRECISELY BECAUSE she wasnât ready for that level of seriousness. What hypocrisy.
Then he goes on to talk about âgun violenceâ in the âfilm industryâ, trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by calling what happened that day âviolenceâ as though itâs somehow related to the ACTUAL issue of gun violence that stems from insufficient gun safety laws (which wouldnât be her fault anyway). I think itâs exceptionally misleading to call this incident âgun violenceâ.
Heâs trying to have his cake and eat it too. On the one hand he blames âthe producersâ (which really means Alec Baldwin, although heâs not really allowed to go there because Baldwin preemptively settled with him out of court for a f**k ton of money and Iâm absolutely certain part of that agreement includes a clause where he canât publicly blame him), for hiring somebody who couldnât handle the responsibility, and then on the other hand he says âbut once she took the job she should have handled it anyway.â
Totally crazy.
This isnât like a murder where she was a jilted lover who killed her ex and tried to cover it up. Thereâs WAY more ambiguity to this case. A considerable amount of it. On any two days, two different juries could have made two different decisions about her culpability.
So itâs crazy to expect her to instantly âtake responsibilityâ after the jury convicted her, the way youâd expect if somebody tried to cover up an intentional homicide. Like, âok dude, the jig is up, youâve been convicted, now take some responsibility.â Itâs not like that in this case. She may genuinely still feel like she wasnât at fault, the way that sheâs been portrayed. And itâs crazy to treat this like a premeditated murder and demand that the instant the jury convicts her she ought to immediately change her song and dance.
I think this whole thing is a load of BULL anyway, because itâs clear that the prosecutor (the DA) has an absolute hardon for convicted Alec Baldwin. Thatâs who sheâs really after. And she did some crazy things, like trying to retroactively apply an enhancement guideline that wasnât law until AFTER the incident occurred, which the judge denied obviouslyâŠ.i asked a lawyer buddy of mine and he said that any first year law student knows damn well you canât do that.
So sheâs on a rampage to destroy Alec Baldwin, probably because she hates his politics, and sheâs going to steam roll anybody and everybody to get there.
This was merely stop one on the destroy Alex Baldwin train ride.
I feel sorry for her. She doesnât deserve to be in jail. She doesnât deserve to have a homicide conviction follow her around for the remainder of her life. What a sick business it is, when prosecutors use their immense power to pursue a personal vindictive agenda.
Ugh. Sickening.
Put the phone down Hilaria-us
troll punk be gone with you!
So cringe.
Um. Is it just me or does Hannah look like that child actress in The Exorcist (Linda Blair)? It's something to do with the new hairstyle. I should stop.