Richard Allen Delphi Appeal: The State's Response Has a Problem

Richard Allen Delphi Appeal: The State's Response Has a Problem

You've been following every development in the Richard Allen appeal. This is the one you've been waiting for.

Indiana's Attorney General just filed the State's formal response brief — their full argument for why Allen's 130-year conviction should stand without any intervention from the Court of Appeals. They call the evidence "conclusive and irrefutable." They say the trial was fair. They say the confessions were voluntary. They say everything the jury never heard was properly kept from them.

We go through every major argument. And we show you the cracks.

The one the State never answers: according to the defense's brief, Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist that he shot the girls. Abby and Libby were not shot. They were killed with a blade. The State's response is silent on this. Ninety-four pages, and not one addresses why the man they say was confessing from memory got the cause of death wrong.

We also walk through the van timeline in detail — the surveillance footage and FBI data the defense obtained showing Brad Weber's van arriving significantly later than his testimony suggested, and the State's answer that the paperwork wasn't filed correctly, not that the data is wrong. The sketch Betsy Blair rated a perfect ten that the jury never saw. The bullet methodology that, according to trial testimony, initially came back without a match. The 15 prison videos played muted at trial.

And we break down what "harmless error" actually means in this context — and whether the State is using it as a legal doctrine or a way to avoid harder questions.

The defense reply brief is coming. This appeal is not over. This episode is essential.

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