Update: Supreme Court reinstates Richard Allen’s defense team in Delphi murder case

Hours after a Thursday hearing, Supreme Court issued an order bringing attorneys Andrew Baldwin and Brad Rozzi back as court-appointed attorneys for the man suspected in the murders of Abby and Libby

UPDATE: That didn’t take long. The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon reinstated attorneys Brad Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin as court-appointed counsel for Richard Allen, a 51-year-old Delphi man charged in October 2022 in the murders of teens Abby Williams and Libby German.

In the same ruling, the justices declined a request to remove Judge Fran Gull, an Allen County judge assigned to the case in 2022, from Allen’s case.

The rulings came hours after a Thursday morning hearing over Allen’s request to bring back his initial defense team, after they either withdrew or were removed – depending on who you ask – from the case in October 2023.

The justices said that “the court will promptly issue a written opinion explaining its reasons.”

Here’s an account of Thursday’s hearing, sent to Based in Lafayette inboxes earlier this afternoon.

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Supreme Court justices question decision to remove attorneys in Delphi murder case

Anxious to get Richard Allen’s trial back on track, justices ask whether a judge was simply exasperated by attorney's tactics or if there really was 'incompetence' worth kicking them off the case

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Faced with a demand from Richard Allen, accused in the 2017 murders of Delphi teens Abby Williams and Libby German, to have his initial court-appointed attorneys reinstated for his defense, Indiana Supreme Court justices said during arguments Thursday that they wanted to get the trial back on track.