She got the maximum sentence in part because of statements she made during jailhouse phone calls that were recorded. That article kind of mentions them, but doesn’t list the worst of it. She called the jurors “idiots”, said the judge was on a “power trip” and accused her of having been paid off. And then there’s this bit, from the NYT article:
In court papers, prosecutors detailed jail calls in which Ms. Gutierrez-Reed contended that she “didn’t need to be shaking the dummies all the time,” referring to a safety measure in which weapons specialists shake inert cartridges, called dummy rounds, to hear a rattle inside, which indicates that the round cannot fire from the gun. On the day of the shooting, Ms. Gutierrez-Reed was supposed to have loaded six dummy rounds in Mr. Baldwin’s revolver, but one ended up being live.
“Every time a gun was loaded with ‘dummy’ rounds, it was a game of Russian roulette,” the lead prosecutor, Kari T. Morrissey, wrote in a court filing ahead of the sentencing.
In a separate call, prosecutors said, Ms. Gutierrez-Reed said she was trying to get her lawyer’s paralegal to reach out to Ms. Hutchins’s family about speaking on her behalf at the sentencing hearing. She also said she wants prosecutors to “put Alec Baldwin in jail.”
She hasn’t accepted an ounce of responsibility and she’s shown no remorse.
