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 nan abrupt dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter lawsuit – and says his daughter’s condemnation should now besides beryllium overturned.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, legendary Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, 81, said Hannah has been made a ‘scapegoat’ complete nan 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 nan important grounds and I conjecture [Baldwin’s] attorneys brought it out.’

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

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

Reed told DailyMail.com he hopes nan tossing of Baldwin’s lawsuit will now 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 do thing wrong. They’ve perfectly made her a scapegoat.’

Baldwin, 66, had been facing nan imaginable of almost 2 years successful jailhouse had he been convicted of involuntary manslaughter complete Hutchins’ death.

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

Director Joel Souza, 51, was besides injured successful nan incident but made a afloat recovery.

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

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

The replica weapon should person contained only blanks but was later recovered to person had astatine slightest 1 unrecorded information inside.

He later claimed that he did not touch nan trigger and nan weapon could only person been fired by ‘sabotage’ though an FBI investigation later revealed nan pistol could not beryllium fired half-cocked arsenic Baldwin had claimed.

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

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

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

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

Halls, who had handed nan weapon to Baldwin and told him it was ‘cold’, took a plea woody and was slapped pinch 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 organization service.

Baldwin was nan last personification to look tribunal complete Hutchins’ decease and, for illustration Hannah, was facing an involuntary manslaughter charge.

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

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

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

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

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

The judge said that nan ‘willful withholding of accusation was intentional and deliberate’, which was ‘so adjacent to bad religion arsenic to show signs of scorching prejudice’ and location was ‘no measurement for nan tribunal to correct this wrong’.

Prosecutor Kari Morrissey countered that they had interviewed Teske past twelvemonth and were skeptical of him because he is adjacent friends pinch Reed.

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

She said: ‘It’s a man [Thell Reed] trying to protect his girl and providing accusation that doesn’t moreover lucifer nan grounds that was recovered astatine nan scene’.