Nearly two years after his arrest, the man accused of the February 2017 murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams in Delphi is set to go to trial.
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Broadcasters and court officials generally report positive experiences under the state’s new camera rules, but the true test likely will come in May when Richard Allen goes on trial for the slayings of two teenage girls near Delphi.
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While Carroll Superior Judge Troy Hawkins said never imagined he would be a judge, he’s glad to have ended up there.
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Allen, 52, was sentenced ater being convicted by a jury on Nov. 11 of two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder in the deaths of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German.
Jurors heard opening statements Friday in the trial of a man accused of killing two teen girls in a small Indiana community, horrific deaths that went unsolved for five years before investigators arrested a pharmacy employee who lived in the same town.
The jurors will be sworn in Thursday for the trial in Delphi, a community of about 3,000 some 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Opening statements are set for Friday morning.
Eight women and six men have been selected so far to a jury in the trial of a man charged in the Indiana killings of two teenage girls during a winter hike in 2017.
The special judge in the ongoing case of Richard Allen, the man accused of killing two teenage girls in Delphi in February 2017, has cancelled this week’s hearings after the defense team filed a motion to disqualify the judge from the case.
A judge on Tuesday delayed until October the murder trial of an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls after the man’s attorneys expressed concerns they would not have adequate time to present their case.
The special judge in the Delphi double-murder case has ruled that no cameras will be allowed in the courtroom when jurors are selected in Allen County starting May 13.
The special judge in Richard Allen’s murder trial next month has denied three more news organizations from accessing the proceedings with broadcast cameras.
Thursday’s decision marks the fourth television station to be denied camera access at trial, increasing doubts that any video cameras will be allowed at one of the most high-profile criminal trials in Indiana in decades. Allen’s trial is set to begin May 13.
While a mother cannot relocate to Utah with her child, the trial court erred in awarding primary physical custody of the child to the father, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Thursday, penning a rebuke of the trial judge’s commentary.
The Indiana Supreme Court has declined to enter a writ of mandamus in the dispute over access to court records between a trial judge and the man accused of murder in the deaths of two Delphi teens, finding the issue is now moot.
The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip was moved Tuesday from January to next October after the presiding judge told the suspect she will not allow his former attorneys to represent him.
The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls is expected to be delayed after his defense attorneys withdrew from the case Thursday amid questions about security of evidence.
The prosecutor overseeing the case against a northern Indiana man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls has dismissed as “fanciful” a recent court filing by the man’s attorneys contending the girls actually died as part of a ritual sacrifice.
Attorneys for a northern Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls contend in court documents filed Monday that their client had nothing to do with the crimes and that the girls actually died as part of a ritual sacrifice.
A man charged with killing two teenage girls from Delphi will remain held at a northern Indiana prison after a judge concluded Wednesday that he’s being treated better there than other inmates.
An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls from Delphi confessed multiple times to the murders in a phone call to his wife while in prison, according to court documents released Wednesday.
A judge has ordered a man charged with killing two teenage girls in Delphi transferred to a different state correctional facility after the suspect’s attorneys argued that his physical and mental health is deteriorating after months in isolation.
Attorneys for a man charged with killing two Delphi teenage girls filed an emergency court motion Wednesday seeking to move him from a prison where they claim his condition is deteriorating.
After the trial court judge issued a scathing opinion declaring Indiana’s civil litigation system was “broken,” the Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed summary judgment in the underlying negligence case, finding the judge was biased.