IN - Abby & Libby - The Delphi Murders - Richard Allen Arrested - #165

[MistyWaters]

Motions of this sort are to be expected in virtually every single case where evidence is obtained through a SW.

Attorneys for Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen want search warrant evidence thrown out

CARROLL COUNTY, Ind. – Defense attorneys for Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen want key evidence against their client thrown out. In an amended motion to suppress, attorneys Bradley Rozzi and And…

fox59.com

“In the motion, Allen’s attorneys argued the warrant and probable cause affidavit failed to establish specifically what police were looking for. They contended the items named in the search could have come from any home. From the filing:”

The affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant failed to provide particular information that particular items related to the particular crime would be found in Defendant Allen’s home, but rather provided generic information concerning generic items that could be found in the Defendant Allen’s home, or any other home, potentially, in Indiana.

“Allen’s attorneys believe the search violated the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article 1, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution. Both involve unreasonable search and seizure. They also cited the Fourteenth Amendment, the equal protection clause.

Allen’s trial is set for January 2024. In a separate motion filed this week, his attorneys asked the judge to allow cameras in the courtroom.”

 

[legalmomma]

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Could the Delphi murder trial be televised? Defendant Richard Allen wants the judge to allow cameras in court

Attorneys for Richard Allen, the man accused of killing two Delphi teens, have asked a judge to allow cameras in all future court proceedings.

www.wrtv.com

DELPHI — Attorneys for the man accused of killing two Delphi teens are asking a judge to allow cameras in court for all future proceedings — including his murder trial.

"The public's thirst for information in this case offers up an opportunity for transparency and the education of the public," Richard M. Allen's attorneys wrote in a motion filed Wednesday.
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Starting May 1, the Indiana Supreme Court is giving judges the authority to decide whether to allow cameras in their courtrooms, ending a near-total ban that goes back to the dawn of television.
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Allen's murder trial is set to begin in January and promises to be the highest profile trial Indiana has seen in at least a decade.

If Special Judge Frances Gull agrees with Allen and allows cameras, his could be one of the first trials in Indiana to be viewed by millions worldwide under the new rule.

 

[M. Kay]

Allen’s trial is set for January 2024. In a separate motion filed this week, his attorneys asked the judge to allow cameras in the courtroom.”

Interested in opinions vis a vis who wants cameras and why, or not?

 

[rosesfromangels]

Interested in opinions vis a vis who wants cameras and why, or not?

Sympathy play. Look at this poor man withering away….

I have a hard heart towards murderers, especially one as heinous as this man. Let him square up with his maker and seek forgiveness. Judicially, it’s all about Justice.
Let there be Justice for these two slaughtered children.

Amateur opinion and speculation

 

[FromGermany1]

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Could the Delphi murder trial be televised? Defendant Richard Allen wants the judge to allow cameras in court

Attorneys for Richard Allen, the man accused of killing two Delphi teens, have asked a judge to allow cameras in all future court proceedings.

www.wrtv.com

DELPHI — Attorneys for the man accused of killing two Delphi teens are asking a judge to allow cameras in court for all future proceedings — including his murder trial.

"The public's thirst for information in this case offers up an opportunity for transparency and the education of the public," Richard M. Allen's attorneys wrote in a motion filed Wednesday.
...

Starting May 1, the Indiana Supreme Court is giving judges the authority to decide whether to allow cameras in their courtrooms, ending a near-total ban that goes back to the dawn of television.
...

Allen's murder trial is set to begin in January and promises to be the highest profile trial Indiana has seen in at least a decade.

If Special Judge Frances Gull agrees with Allen and allows cameras, his could be one of the first trials in Indiana to be viewed by millions worldwide under the new rule.

Who is wanting the cameras in court: RA or his lawyers?

 

[twall]

Do you know if those are available to the public?

Both motions are in this article

Attorneys file motion to suppress evidence collected from Delphi killer’s home

The attorneys representing the man accused in the 2017 Delphi double murders are requesting that evidence collected from his home during a search warrant be suppressed.

www.21alivenews.com

 

[arielilane]

Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen wants his trial televised

Richard Allen was arrested more than five years after the lifeless bodies of two Indiana teens were found in the woods near a hiking trail.

www.courttv.com

Posted at 2:40 PM, September 14, 2023

By BARBARA MACDONALD

DELPHI, Ind. (Court TV) — The Indiana man charged with the 2017 double murder of best friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German is asking the court to allow broadcast cameras for all future proceedings.

Attorneys for Delphi murders suspect Richard M. Allen filed the Motion for Broadcasting Order in Carroll County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

 

[arielilane]

DELPHI, Ind. — Richard Allen's attorneys have revised a request asking for the judge to suppress evidence collected from his home during a search warrant connected to the Delphi killings of Abby Williams and Libby German.

Previous court documents released show a Sig Sauer Model P226 was removed from Allen's home.

The gun is particularly significant to the case as police claim testing showed a bullet found at the crime scene was cycled through that Sig Sauer Model P226.

Those previous court documents also mention how in the video from German's phone where the suspected killer can be heard saying, "down the hill" – investigators also believed they could hear the Sig Sauer Model P226 gun being cycled. [...]


Allen is set to go to trial in January 2024.

Richard Allen's attorneys want search of home suppressed

The attorneys for the suspect in the Delphi murders case are also requesting broadcast cameras be allowed in the courtroom to help with transparency.

www.wthr.com

Updated: 12:36 PM EDT September 14, 2023

 

[girlhasnoname]

Interested in opinions vis a vis who wants cameras and why, or not?

I'm for cameras in the courtroom as long as the Judge keeps control.

I think it's good transparency for the Prosecution, Defense and the Judge.

Also, I'm so tired of trial by tweet which ends up with so much incorrect information.

MOO

 

[Trebor5591]

Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen wants his trial televised​

Posted at 2:40 PM, September 14, 2023

By BARBARA MACDONALD

DELPHI, Ind. (Court TV) — The Indiana man charged with the 2017 double murder of best friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German is asking the court to allow broadcast cameras for all future proceedings.

Attorneys for Delphi murders suspect Richard M. Allen filed the Motion for Broadcasting Order in Carroll County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

In 2021, the law that once banned the broadcasting of legal proceedings in Indiana, was amended, leaving it up to the trial court judge’s discretion.

Officers escort Richard Matthew Allen, out of the Carroll County courthouse following a hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Delphi, Ind. Allen was charged last month with two counts of murder in the killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
The motion cites a four-month pilot program that took place before the broadcast law was amended, which allowed cameras in select Indiana courtrooms. The judge presiding over Allen’s case, Hon. Frances C. Gull, reportedly participated in that program and reported favorable experiences in an interview with Indiana Court Times in March 2022, according to the defendant’s motion.

The motion also addresses concerns over the protection of minor witnesses, saying it is not a concern because most witnesses who were underage when the girls were killed in 2017 are now adults.

Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen wants his trial televised

Richard Allen was arrested more than five years after the lifeless bodies of two Indiana teens were found in the woods near a hiking trail.

www.courttv.com

 

[FrostedGlass]

Interested in opinions vis a vis who wants cameras and why, or not?

MOO If you're asking our opinions of cameras in the courtroom, I'm a strong "Yes! Let them in." I also think the courts should live stream their trials and sentencing on some of the higher crimes. The judge in Elkhart Co.'s Circuit court live streams all of his court proceedings. Every day.

RA's atty effectively countered any objections the judge may have to cameras in the courtroom.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Brad Hunter from Toronto Sun already responded that we are right, RA only has one daughter, and he said he will correct the article.

Replying to myself, as an update, Toronto Sun did make the correction.

His name was Richard Matthew Allen, a married employee at the local CVS Pharmacy with a grown daughter. In November, it was announced that cops had recovered a .40-calibre unspent bullet between the girls’ bodies. It allegedly came from the suspect’s gun.

DEATH IN DELPHI: Book examines Libby German, Abby Williams murders

Farms, freckles and football are the sort of touchstones one thinks of when discussing small, Midwestern towns like Delphi, Indiana.

torontosun.com

 

[steeltowngirl]

The same week BK asks for no cameras in court, RA comes forward and asks to have cameras in court.

What in the world? What is the defense playbook here?

 

[Springrain]

Yeah, he doesn't seem to have been terribly disguised to me. Also, if he knew that he would be meeting the girls at the end of the bridge, he could have entered in a similar way to the way he left and avoided all of the witness sightings on the trail.

His behavior seems more consistent to me with coming to the trail looking for potential victims and Libby and Abby just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

JMO I agree with this, I personally believe it was a very sad case of two girls who just happened to be on the bridge that day and were unfortunate enough to be his victims. I think he watched them the whole time and decided he wanted to target Libby, for whatever reason, and Abby was just "collateral damage" (I'm sorry, I can't think of another term to really use). I don't think he was planning to kill them in particular and I don't think he was 100% sure he would kill anybody that day. The CSAM evidence points to something worse in the area, but there has been no evidence that compels me enough to believe that it is at all connected to the case. Sadly there are many sick people and disgusting pedophiles out there. It does not necessarily have to be connected to this gruesome case. JMO.

 

[Schatz]

The same week BK asks for no cameras in court, RA comes forward and asks to have cameras in court.

What in the world? What is the defense playbook here?

Perhaps a chance to show conspiracy? Or to set the record on his involvement? Total speculation, of course.

 

[girlhasnoname]

The same week BK asks for no cameras in court, RA comes forward and asks to have cameras in court.

What in the world? What is the defense playbook here?

That was shocking to me as well. Maybe the Defense is looking for their 15 minutes of fame? Maybe they think RA will come across as more sympathetic on camera. (Maybe RA will be sitting there chewing up a writing tablet?)

I hope all graphic images and testimony are blocked from public view even if I agree to having cameras in court as a general rule.

MOO

 

[minazoe]

I can't wait for the day they shave that stupid beard off his face and lock him away forever. mOO

 

[arielilane]

I'd be interested to know if RA disclosed anything only the killer would know about the murder of Libby & Abby, during his supposed confession(s). moo

 

[arielilane]

Who is wanting the cameras in court: RA or his lawyers?

According to this article, RA wants news cameras and public broadcastings...


DELPHI, Ind. — Richard Allen, the accused killer of Libby German and Abby Williams, wants news cameras and public broadcastings of his pretrial and trial, according to a motion filed Wednesday.

Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen asks for cameras in the courtroom during his trial

Richard Allen, the accused killer of Libby German and Abby Williams, wants news cameras and public broadcastings of his trial, according to a motion.

www.indystar.com

9.14.2023

 

[TTF14]

I hope he gets his wish and the trial is livestreamed.