“I beg you please don’t give me more time,” Gutierrez-Reed told the court, adding that her heart ached for Hutchins’ family. “The jury has found me at fault for this tragedy but that doesn’t make me a monster, that makes me human.”

In a video call from Kiev the Ukraine-born cinematographer’s mother mourned her daughter’s death and her young grandson Andros being left without a mother.

“It’s the hardest thing to lose a child,” said Olga Solovey, whose comments were translated into English in subtitles.

Prosecutor Kari Morrissey pointed to phone calls by Gutierrez-Reed from jail in which she said the jurors were “idiots”, the judge had been “paid off”, and that she continued to blame Baldwin and others for the shooting.

Gutierrez-Reed had already spent a month in Santa Fe county jail after her conviction.

Film historians such as Alan Rode have look to back to the early part of the last century to find examples of Hollywood cast or crew killed by live rounds accidentally loaded into guns.

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Previous on-set fatal shootings of actors Brandon Lee in 1993 and Jon-Erik Hexum in 1984 involved blank rounds.

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