Indiana Says Allen Found God In His Delphi Cell. Doctors Disagree.

Richard Allen walked into Westville Correctional Facility weighing 180 pounds. By April 2023, he weighed 135 pounds. He had been in solitary confinement the entire time. He was not under sentence. He had not yet been to trial. He was a pretrial detainee in a maximum-security prison's most restrictive housing — and the documented evidence is that he was losing his mind.

He tore up his legal mail. He drank from the toilet. He ate his Bible. He hit his head against the cell door. He asked his own father, on a phone call, how much longer he could stay lucid. And then he confessed to the Delphi murders.

The Indiana Department of Correction has a written policy. Inmates with serious mental illness — and Allen had a documented diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder before he ever arrived at Westville — cannot be held in solitary for more than 30 days. Richard Allen was held there for 13 months. The Indiana Attorney General is now asking three judges at the Court of Appeals to call all of that constitutionally fine.

Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Two of a three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal. They walk through what the documented decline at Westville actually looked like in real time. They examine the religious-conversion theory the State has offered to explain why Allen confessed, and they put it next to the contemporaneous behavioral record. They get into the jailhouse calls — one heard by the jury, two excluded — and what selective admission of evidence around a confession does to the voluntariness question three judges now have to answer.

The State broke its own rule by more than twelve months. Three judges are reading.

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