Attorneys for Richard Allen, the Indiana man accused of killing two teenage girls on a hiking trail in 2017, removed their client Thursday in an “unexpected turn of events.”
Defense attorneys Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi withdrew from the case after key information about the murders of Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14 – including gruesome crime scene photos – was leaked from their office.
The shocking move comes just a month after the pair revealed their bizarre defense claims that the girls were “ritualistically sacrificed” by a racist pagan cult and not by their client, who is accused of attacking them after he found them hiking alone outside their hometown. them. Delphi over six years ago.
“We’ve had an unexpected turn of events,” Special Judge Fran Gull said during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
Gull did not say why Baldwin and Rozzi dropped Allen, 51, however, the retraction came the same day it was revealed a trove of court documents had been leaked from Baldwin’s office.
An attorney representing Baldwin said in a memorandum Thursday that authorities are investigating three suspected “spoilers” who “betrayed” Baldwin and gained access to papers related to his case that were kept “locked away in a locked fireproof file cabinet or room.”
“Attorney Baldwin did nothing wrong. He was deceived and abused,” Baldwin’s representative, David R. Hennessy, said in the memo.
Richard Allen was left without representation after both of his attorneys withdrew from his murder case Thursday.AP Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were killed on a hiking trail outside their hometown of Delphi, Indiana, in 2017. Indiana State Police
The attorney’s withdrawal leaves the timeline for Allen’s case up in the air.
Gull said he will appoint a new public defender for the alleged killer and hopes to hold a trial planned for Oct. 31, but does not expect to keep the original Jan. 8 trial date.
“I don’t believe lawyers will be ready in the next few months to try a case of this magnitude in January,” he said.
Andrew Baldwin and Brad Rozzi’s withdrawals come the same day it was revealed information related to the case was leaked from Baldwin’s office.WTHR
Allen was charged in October 2022 after an analysis concluded a .40-caliber round found between the bodies of Williams and German came from the gun he owned.
He confessed to multiple murders in prison phone calls to his wife and mother, according to previous court documents.
However, Allen’s former attorney claims he was “monitored, intimidated, and mentally abused” at the Westville Correctional Facility by correctional officers who were Odin — the same cult Baldwin and Rozzi claim were the teen’s real killers.
The white nationalist cult could have targeted the girls because one of their parents had a mixed-race relationship and left a number of pagan symbols also left at the scene, including the way German bodies were positioned, the ex-team alleges.
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, connects Richard Allen to Odinism or any religious cult,” Baldwin and Rozzi wrote in the September filing.
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