Hannah Gutierrez Reed is demanding her immediate release from prison as the “Last” arms manufacturer prepares to seek a new trial.
According to court documents filed June 27 and obtained by Fox News Digital, Gutierrez Reed’s lawyers charged that prosecutors concealed “shocking exculpatory evidence” that would have led to “a fundamentally different trial and possibly a different outcome.”
The gun manufacturer’s team argued that the state withheld a report that found “unexplained tool marks on the critical trigger and sear surfaces” on a replica Colt .45 Pietta revolver used on a Western movie set. Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez Reed, noted that the marks “are not the result of damage caused during FBI impact testing” and “do not appear to be original manufacturing marks or tool marks from use or abuse.” [their] The report said it was “erratic in direction.”
Bowles wrote that the state “concealed this information” and it “was never disclosed” to Gutierrez Reed or his legal team.
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Lawyers for Hannah Gutierrez Reed have requested that the arms dealer be released from prison while their team prepares to file a motion for retrial. (Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center/Getty Images)
Bowles further argued that the state “then called experts at trial and stood by and watched as they perjured themselves during cross-examination.”
The report, showing “unexplained” tool marks, will likely “strengthen” Gutierrez Reed’s defense, according to court documents.
“Mr. Gutierrez Reed’s primary defense was that no one had committed a crime, that this was a tragic accident, and that if there was negligence, as OSHA found, it was on the part of the manufacturer,” court documents state. “This defense could easily have been bolstered by legally unforeseeable intervening causes, such as a gun malfunction, that caused Mr. Hutchins’ death.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the special counsel in the case for comment.
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Hannah Gutierrez Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison. (Courtesy of New Mexico State Court)
Gutierrez Reed was in charge of firearms on the set of the Western when cinematographer Halina Hutchins was shot and killed on October 21, 2021. Hutchins was setting up a close-up shot when the gun held by Alec Baldwin fired.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer sentenced Gutierrez-Reed to 18 months in prison after he was convicted in March.
“I find that your conduct constituted a serious and violent crime,” Judge Sommer said after imposing the sentence. “It was carried out in a physically violent manner. You recklessly fired a deadly weapon, knowing that your actions were likely to cause serious harm.”
“You were a weaponsmith, the man who stood between a safe weapon and a deadly weapon. You alone transformed a safe weapon into a deadly one. But without you, Mrs Hutchins would be alive, her husband would be with his partner, and her little boy with his mother. Please take her.”
The “Last” Armsman was led from the courtroom on March 6 after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter. (Luis Sanchez Saturno – Pool/Getty Images)
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The trial of Hannah Gutierrez Reed began with jury selection on February 21st. (Courtesy of New Mexico State Court)
Gutierrez Reed’s trialTestimony from weapons experts, the FBI, Santa Fe County authorities and crew members who witnessed the fatal shooting was heard during the trial, which began on Feb. 21. The prosecution focused primarily on Gutierrez-Reed’s actions as weapons officer, arguing that she did not perform her duties properly.
“Hanna Gutierrez knew Baldwin got away with it. She knew it,” special prosecutor Kari Morrissey said in closing arguments. “And she did nothing, even though that was her job. That was her job. It’s her job to tell an A-list actor, if you actually want to call it that, ‘Hey, you can’t carry a gun and behave like that.’ That’s her job. That’s why she gets paid. That’s the job she applied for. That’s the job she accepted.”
Gutierrez Reed’s defense team told jurors the prosecution had not presented enough evidence to convict the gun manufacturer of manslaughter.
Hannah Gutierrez Reid holds a gun on the set of Lust. (Courtesy of New Mexico State Court)
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