Delphi judge denies Allen’s request to overturn judgment
DELPHI, Ind. (WISH) — The judge in the Delphi Murders case denies multiple motions from Richard Allen’s defense team to overturn his guilty judgment.
In the denied motions are claims from Allen’s team that evidence presented to the prosecutor was not shared with the defense and that false testimony was allowed in court.
All the motions filed by Allen’s defense team were denied by the judge without a hearing.
Judge Frances Gull also denied the defense team’s request to enter in a confession to the Delphi murders by Ron Logan, who owns the property where Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German were killed in 2017.
Allen’s attorney, Andrew Baldwin, asked the judge to preserve other “exculpatory” evidence from the Carroll County Prosecutor’s Office. Baldwin claims the withheld evidence was valuable testimony from an inmate at the New Castle Correctional Facility who heard confessions from both Logan and Kegan Kline.
Baldwin’s filings say that the state had access to the confessions, but did not enter it into the trial. He also illuminated holes in Brad Weber’s testimony, pointing out that security camera footage contradicted the timeline presented in court.
Gull will not require the prosecutor’s office to preserve or present any evidence of the “Davis Letters,” a series of eight letters detailing confessions, to the defense team. Feb. 12, Baldwin met with Ricci Davis, an inmate who spent time with both Kline and Logan while incarcerated in the New Castle Correctional Facility. In that meeting, Davis claimed to have heard multiple confessions and “details that could only be known by someone involved in the killings,” Baldwin said in the request.
Feb. 4, the prosecutor’s office released new photos of Libby’s cell phone, trying to discredit a request from Allen’s team for a retrial. In the same filing, prosecuting attorney Nicholas McLeland said that evidence about Brad Weber and Logan “is not newly discovered evidence to warrant a new trial.”
The judge’s denial of the motions agree with the prosecutor’s response, which implied that it was too late to complain about the verdict. McLeland said that Baldwin had the opportunity to discredit Weber’s timeline during cross-examination, but chose not to in the trial.
