Alec Baldwin 'Rust' trial: Armorer expected to testify

(NewsNation) — The armorer of "Rust" who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter earlier this twelvemonth could beryllium called to attest astatine histrion Alec Baldwin's proceedings Friday.

Baldwin presently faces the aforesaid charges successful transportation to the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins connected the New Mexico movie set. He had pleaded not guilty.

During a rehearsal, Baldwin was utilizing a weapon meant to beryllium loaded with dummy rounds erstwhile he allegedly pointed it astatine the camera and fired, sidesplitting Hutchins and wounding manager Joel Souza.

While the histrion has maintained helium did not propulsion the trigger connected the limb and that it fired by accident, FBI analysts disputed this upon examining the gun.

Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the idiosyncratic liable for keeping way of weapons utilized successful the movie, is presently serving an 18-month situation sentence for involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors alleged she was negligent for not realizing unrecorded rounds had been mixed successful with a container of dummy rounds. Gutierrez-Reed's lawyers, meanwhile, accidental she was scapegoated by others moving connected the film. Producers had failed to support the acceptable harmless and did not clasp capable information meetings, they said.

Lawyers for Gutierrez-Reed told NewsNation she volition beryllium invoking her 5th Amendment right, which protects radical from giving accusation that could incriminate them.

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