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Rust armourer sentenced to max prison time. What does this mean for Alec Baldwin?

Source: Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer who worked on the set of Rust, has been sentenced to 18 months in a women's correctional facility in New Mexico after she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.

The sentence was handed down Monday after Gutierrez-Reed's defence attorneys tried, without success, to convince the judge to give her probation instead of prison time.

Gutierrez-Reed won't be the only person to over the cinematographer's death this year; the producer and lead actor on , , has also been charged with involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’s death..

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