Now that prosecutors have dropped a firearm enhancement charge, Baldwin's maximum prison sentence has been reduced to 18 months
, the prosecution in Baldwin’s case has opted to drop the charge of breaking New Mexico’s firearm enhancement statute. Prosecutors filed the altered charges against Baldwin and his fellow defendant Hannah Gutierrez-Reed on Friday.Under New Mexico law, the firearm enhancement statute that
Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed had initially faced carries a minimum sentence of five years if a defendant is convicted. Without that charge , Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed only face an involuntary manslaughter charge in Hutchins’ death, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 18 months. The two“We applaud the decision of the District Attorney to dismiss the firearm enhancement and it was the right call, ethically, and on the merits,” Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez-Reed, shared in a statement with
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