Allen’s appeal: Delphi murders case ‘a paper tiger,’ court kept defense from lighting a match
Attorneys for Richard Allen ask Appeals Court to hear oral arguments, saying ‘the jury only heard half of the story’ in his trial for the 2017 murders of Delphi teens Abby Williams and Libby German.
Attorneys pressing an appeal for Richard Allen, a Delphi man convicted of the 2017 murders of eighth-graders Abby Williams and Libby German, this week motioned for oral arguments before the Indiana Court of Appeals, saying it “will put facts in context and answer any questions” in a “factually complex” case.
The motion, filed late Monday, came with Allen’s defense team’s reply to state arguments filed in March fighting the need for an appeal. His attorneys insisted in the new court filing that the initial four-week trial in 2024 was stacked against Allen with little opportunity to refute a prosecution built on “superficial inference stacking,” pulled together into “this story of tunnel vision into the wrong man.”
“The State’s case was a paper tiger, and the trial court systematically barred Allen from lighting a match,” Allen’s attorneys, Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman, wrote in Monday’s filing.
