Judge Gall became the first woman partner of Ballard Spahr’s Las Vegas office in 2019, where she practiced complex commercial litigation. Upon returning to practice, Judge Gall joined the law firm of Stoll Keenon Ogden and then Ballard Spahr in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Judge Gall left the practice of law for a short time to serve as a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Kentucky, where she taught business associations (corporations), international human rights law, and professional responsibility. Judge Gall began her practice in New York City, as a litigator with Cadwalader, Wickerhsam & Taft, the oldest, continuously run law firm in the United States. District Court, Western District of Kentucky.
She is a trained concert pianist.įollowing law school, Judge Gall served as a federal law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. In addition to her law degree, Judge Gall holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University. Judge Gall graduated cum laude from the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law in 2006, where she served as production editor of the Kentucky Law Journal. Judge Gall was raised primarily in and around Fort Knox, Kentucky, by her mother who immigrated from South Korea, and where her father and step-father were career U.S. Following the nomination of the Judicial Selection Commission, Governor Steve Sisolak appointed Judge Gall to the bench in June 2022. Hutchins was killed and "Rust" director Joel Souza injured when a revolver Baldwin was rehearsing with fired a live round.The Honorable Maria Gall serves on the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Nevada. "You cannot use it unless you're not going to prosecute," said the judge, who scheduled another hearing for Friday.Ĭarmack-Altwies said she still planned to use the statute to appoint a special prosecutor, telling the judge her short-staffed office could not handle the "massive amounts of time" required for the "Rust" case on top of its existing workload.Īndrea Reeb, who is a Republican state representative, resigned as special prosecutor in the case on March 15 after Baldwin's lawyers argued that serving in two branches of government simultaneously was unlawful as it could lead to a conflict of interest.Ĭarmack-Altwies has only five weeks to appoint a new special prosecutor before a May 2 preliminary hearing in which Marlowe Sommer will decide whether there is probable cause to try Gutierrez-Reed and Baldwin.īaldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge and Gutierrez-Reed is expected to do the same.
Marlowe Sommer told Carmack-Altwies the statute underpinning use of a special prosecutor said a district attorney could only appoint one if he or she had "good cause" not to take part in a prosecution themselves. The filing was the latest effort by defense lawyers to weaken a prosecution beset by legal errors since it filed criminal charges in January against Gutierrez-Reed and actor Alec Baldwin for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Lawyers for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed also sought to stop Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies from acting as a co-prosecutor in the case, as she previously did.
The comments by district court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer came after the armorer charged in the 2021 shooting filed a motion to block appointment of a new special prosecutor after the previous one resigned. March 27 (Reuters) - A New Mexico judge on Monday told the district attorney overseeing the "Rust" movie-set shooting case that she could not appoint a new special prosecutor and remain on the case herself, marking another potential setback for the prosecution.
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