The relationship between Indianapolis attorney Kevin Greenlee and New York journalist Aine Cain sounds like the perfect setup for a Hulu crime series – something like “Only Murders in the Building,” but darker.
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In this case, even the use of cameras outside the courthouse has caused a stir.
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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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Allen’s attorneys also seek reconsideration of a motion to correct error, which questions the timeline laid out by the prosecution at trial and whether exculpatory evidence was withheld.
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.
Allen’s defense team said they advised their client not to participate in providing information for the pre-sentence investigation because Allen maintains his innocence and hopes to present a full defense at a second trial for the murders of two Delphi teens.
The verdict came after nearly four days of deliberations and 18 days of testimony in a Carroll County Courthouse trial that garnered international attention and intense media coverage across the state.
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.
Richard Allen’s trial once held the promise of being the most high-profile court proceeding in Indiana history to be allowed to be captured live by television and streaming service cameras. But Judge Frances Gull ultimately decided to deny access.
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.
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.
The new charges approved against Richard Allen of Delphi are murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping.
Previously set for October, the jury trial for Richard Allen is now scheduled for May 13 through May 31, according to court records.
The prosecutor in the case of an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls asked a judge Thursday to allow new two new counts each of kidnapping and murder while kidnapping.
Mere hours after hearing arguments in a dispute between the man accused of killing two teen girls from Delphi and the judge who removed his attorneys over his objection, the Indiana Supreme Court issued an order reinstating the man’s legal team.
The Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a dispute between the man accused of killing two teenage girls from Delphi and the judge who removed his attorneys over his objection.
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.