Richard Allen: The AG's Harmless Error Strategy and What It's Hiding
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The episode discusses the Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal regarding his conviction for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German.
The Indiana Attorney General filed its response to Richard Allen's appeal on March 25, 2026 — a ninety-four-page brief arguing that Allen's conviction for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German should stand. Allen was convicted in November 2024 and sentenced to 130 years. His appellate attorneys raised three constitutional issues: an unconstitutional search warrant built on alleged omissions and altered witness statements, confessions they contend were extracted under coercive conditions during more than thirteen months of pretrial solitary confinement, and the systematic exclusion of defense evidence at trial. The AG's brief responds with a consistent framework. On the search warrant, the State argues that the probable cause affidavit establishes sufficient basis for the search even if challenged statements are excluded. On the confessions, the State argues that conditions of confinement did not constitute coercion and that Allen confessed both before and after his documented period of psychosis — offering a religious conversion as an alternative explanation. On excluded evidence, the State characterizes the alternative suspect theories as speculative and argues that the…
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