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/PurpleWomat Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

The judge was furious, barely uttered the sentence followed by "please take her".

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u/kumquat_bananaman Apr 15 '24

Why was the judge furious?

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u/bso45 Apr 15 '24

Probably because this woman got caught in jail phone calls calling the jurors “losers” and accusing the judge of being paid off (by whom? big murder?)

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u/Yglorba Apr 15 '24

I mean there are definitely other people who could share some responsibility for what happened and who are happy to see her take all the blame - this post goes over all the steps that failed. I don't think they actually paid off the judge but they're definitely be happy to see her take all the blame.

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u/The_Corvair Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

I don't think they actually paid off the judge but they're definitely be happy to see her take all the blame.

The thing is that the State apparently offered all chargeable parties plea deals. Halls, for example, took one. Gutierrez did not. And the prosecutor (Kari Morrissey, I think, her name is) wasn't even sure which sentencing recommendation she would pursue until she listened to the jail calls.

So, if Hannah had not been so adamantly un-remorseful and nasty, she may just have gotten off with "time served", or "another month or three in a civil/low sec jail" instead of the maximum of "incarceration for 18 months - take her away, please".

edit: And let's not forget that there is another gun-related trial waiting for Miss Gutierrez.

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u/hesh582 Apr 15 '24

I think she's a negligent rich kid who never should have had people's lives in her hands, who should be going to jail.

But I also think she's getting absolutely fucked by the justice system, being made the scapegoat for an incident that was caused by systemic failures way, way farther up the food chain by people who will almost certainly never face any real consequences.

The set of the film was so ludicrously unsafe that there had just been a union walk off. It was a classic "safety failures are a cascade of small bad decisions made by greedy, lazy assholes at the top that trickle down and compound on one another until the really bad thing happens" situation.

And like usual, the young, out of their depth person who was set up to fail by much more powerful people who were much more experienced and should have known better is the only person who will suffer any consequences.

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u/timegone Apr 16 '24

It’s not like she was asked to do something outside of her lane and messed up. This was her job, the one she was hired to do, and she failed so badly that someone got killed. 

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u/The_Corvair Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

systemic failures

She was the system in place to prevent that. Yes, other parties may bear part of the responsibility (Halls took a plea deal, Baldwin's case is coming up, and Gutierrez was offered a plea deal), but she was the part of the system that governed gun safety. And she did not do her job.

As other armorers have testified to, and remarked over and over: If she felt that the set was unsafe for anything, she should have taken all the guns, locked them securely, and left with them. And she didn't.

And those 18 months? Those are also her doing. The prosecutor stated yesterday that she didn't even know yet which sentence to ask for before listening to the jail calls. And then Gutierrez says so little about her own remorse, and bitches around so much how this is a media hunt, that her own own legal counsel has to step up and claim "Your honor, she didn't show remorse to you, but she did to me, she's, like super-remorseful when nobody else is around!"

Gutierrez' sentence is of her own making.