Supreme Court gets taste of fight between judge, attorneys in Delphi murder case

All leads up to a status hearing scheduled Tuesday for Richard Allen, charged in the 2017 murders of Abby Williams and Libby German

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SUPREME COURT GETS TASTE OF FIGHT BETWEEN JUDGE, ATTORNEYS IN DELPHI MURDER CASE

Sparring between defense attorneys and the judge assigned to the case of Richard Allen, charged a year ago in the 2017 murders of Delphi teens Abby Williams and Libby German, got even more tangled Monday, as claims landed in front of the Indiana Supreme Court.

A new set of attorneys representing Allen filed a petition that called into question Judge Fran Gull’s actions leading up to his trial. They contend that she unfairly and unconstitutionally instigated the removal of Allen’s initial, court-appointed defense team and kept too many of the documents in the case hidden or essentially inaccessible in the public record.

“If there was ever a time when the openness mandated by the trial rules and access to court records rules was critical, it is the present case – one of the most high-profile cases this state has ever seen,” Allen’s attorneys wrote in a petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition filed with the Indiana Supreme Court.

The legal move – meant to call into question the judge’s decisions – followed a flurry of back-and-forth motions last week between Judge Fran Gull, an Allen County judge appointed to the case a year ago, and Allen’s initial court-appointed defense team of Brad Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin.

It also came a day before Allen was due to appear Tuesday morning in Carroll Circuit Court for a status update in his case, attended by Robert Scremin and William S. Lebrato, a pair of newly appointed, replacement attorneys from Fort Wayne.