Rust armorer's family reacts after Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case was sensationally DISMISSED by judge - as they issue urgent demand

The aged begetter of Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has welcomed the abrupt dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter lawsuit – and says his daughter’s condemnation should present besides beryllium overturned.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, legendary Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, 81, said Hannah has been made a ‘scapegoat’ implicit the tragic shooting decease of shaper Halyna Hutchins, 42, successful October 2022.

Reed said: ‘Well, I deliberation that's bully [Baldwin’s dismissal]. I deliberation Hannah’s lawsuit should besides beryllium dismissed.

‘There’s a batch of grounds that hasn’t been heard astatine all. They suppressed each the important grounds and I conjecture [Baldwin’s] attorneys brought it out.’

Hannah, 27, was slapped with an 18-month jailhouse condemnation successful April aft being convicted of a azygous complaint of involuntary manslaughter. 

She is presently serving her condemnation astatine the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility and had been owed to beryllium called to the basal to attest successful Baldwin’s case.

Reed told DailyMail.com helium hopes the tossing of Baldwin’s lawsuit volition present springiness his girl grounds to entreaty her ain condemnation and said she has been made a scapegoat by prosecutors.

He added: ‘It should [be grounds for an appeal]. She didn't bash thing wrong. They’ve perfectly made her a scapegoat.’

Baldwin, 66, had been facing the imaginable of astir 2 years successful jailhouse had helium been convicted of involuntary manslaughter implicit Hutchins’ death.

The Ukrainian mom-of-one was changeable successful the thorax during a rehearsal astatine the Bonanza Creek Ranch conscionable extracurricular of Santa Fe during the filming of Baldwin’s occidental movie Rust.

Director Joel Souza, 51, was besides injured successful the incidental but made a afloat recovery.

Harrowing footage shown during Baldwin’s abruptly terminated proceedings shows the aftermath of the shooting, with Hutchins seen being tended to by medics connected set.

Moments before, Baldwin – dressed successful afloat occidental garb successful his relation arsenic the eponymous Harland Rust – had been filmed waving astir his Pietta .45 Colt pistol.

The replica weapon should person contained lone blanks but was aboriginal recovered to person had astatine slightest 1 unrecorded circular inside.

He aboriginal claimed that helium did not interaction the trigger and the weapon could lone person been fired by ‘sabotage’ though an FBI probe aboriginal revealed the pistol could not beryllium fired half-cocked arsenic Baldwin had claimed.

Hannah, who was moving connected lone her 2nd movie arsenic an armorer astatine the time, was the archetypal to beryllium charged and aboriginal accused of ‘a cascade of information violations’ by prosecutors successful her case.

Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, the aforesaid justness who dramatically tossed Baldwin’s case, said astatine her sentencing that she had turned ‘a harmless limb into a lethal weapon’ by failing to support unrecorded ammunition distant from the set.

She added: ‘You were the armorer, the 1 that stood betwixt a harmless limb and a limb that could termination someone.

‘You unsocial turned a harmless limb into a lethal weapon. But for you, Ms. Hutchins would beryllium alive, a hubby would person his spouse and a small lad would person his mother.’

Halls, who had handed the weapon to Baldwin and told him it was ‘cold’, took a plea woody and was slapped with a misdemeanor complaint of negligent usage of a deadly weapon.

He had besides been owed to attest against Baldwin and has served six months of unsupervised probation, paid a $500 good and completed 24 hours of assemblage service.

Baldwin was the last idiosyncratic to look tribunal implicit Hutchins’ decease and, similar Hannah, was facing an involuntary manslaughter charge.

He had pled not blameworthy to the charges successful January and time 1 of the proceedings successful Santa Fe, New Mexico, began with prosecutors accusing him of ‘a reckless disregard for Miss Hutchins' safety’.

But the proceedings dramatically collapsed today, with the defence successfully arguing for the lawsuit to beryllium dismissed implicit the prosecution’s nonaccomplishment to stock each the grounds with them – specifically bullets brought to them by retired bull Troy Teske who said they were the aforesaid benignant utilized successful Baldwin’s gun.

Moments earlier the ruling from the judge, the tribunal heard that 1 of the 2 peculiar prosecutors, Erlina Johnson, had discontinue the case

In her ruling Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said that dismissal with prejudice was a ‘very utmost sanction’, but the threshold had been met.

She said that the ‘suppressed evidence’ had ‘impacted the cardinal fairness of the case’, and that prosecutors were ‘highly culpable’ for the errors and had ‘unilaterally withheld’ the details astir the ammunition.

The justice said that the ‘willful withholding of accusation was intentional and deliberate’, which was ‘so adjacent to atrocious religion arsenic to amusement signs of scorching prejudice’ and determination was ‘no mode for the tribunal to close this wrong’.

Prosecutor Kari Morrissey countered that they had interviewed Teske past twelvemonth and were skeptical of him due to the fact that helium is adjacent friends with Reed.

Morrissey said they concluded Teske was sending them connected a ‘wild goose chase’ to constituent the blasted astatine idiosyncratic different than Hannah.

She said: ‘It’s a antheral [Thell Reed] trying to support his girl and providing accusation that doesn’t adjacent lucifer the grounds that was recovered astatine the scene’.