Re: Rust and the Alec Baldwin mess. Much as I think Hannah Gutierrez Reed is probably guilty of involuntarily manslaughter, the police officer woman talking her nicely out of insisting a lawyer is still chilling to me.
I saw the police interview, it’s available on YouTube.
Hannah, clearly a sobbing mess and not in her right mind: “Shouldn’t I have a lawyer?”
Police lady: “But then why do need one? Besides if we got you a public defender, it would take time, you’d have stay in all night. But you can talk to me.”
And Hannah trusts her.
Imo, they got a woman in there because they knew she could manipulate her better than some guy.
Regardless of her incompetence, Reed should have had a public defender before she talked to them for 2 hours.