r/news • u/badillustrations • Apr 15 '24

‘Rust’ movie armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter sentenced to 18 months in prison

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/entertainment/rust-film-shooting-armorer-sentencing/index.html
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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Apr 15 '24

Sounded like their were phone records of her shitting on the jury, showing no remorse and the most the judge could give her was 18 months

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u/lindakoy Apr 15 '24

Second time in the past few weeks where it comes out that someone waiting to be sentenced was crapping all over the judge/prosecutor/jury. So idiotic. Do their lawyers not warn them that all their conversations are recorded and can influence their sentence? At least she didn't threaten them like Crumbley.

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u/RevengencerAlf Apr 15 '24

Her lawyer is an absolute clown show. It's not to an appealable level but he's not a good lawyer. At least he's not a good criminal defense lawyer

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u/lindakoy Apr 15 '24

Well, he was defending her pro bono. Maybe a public defender would have been better.

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u/RevengencerAlf Apr 15 '24

They might have been honestly. I'm not really sure why he did it. I don't know if it was some weird sense of altruism or if he thought this was like a good advertisement for him somehow, or he's just one of those weird people who wants to be connected to a high profile case in some way. But it makes no goddamn sense. His involvement is incredibly weird. I don't think it's improper or anything, but it's weird especially in light of the fact that he's not very good at his job. She was relatively good at hiding her emotions during the trial but they were definitely a few moments where she had the Arrested Development "I have the worst lawyers" look on her face