The Delphi Murders: Crowdfunding

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Recently, attorney David Hennessy — apparently at the behest of attorneys Brad Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin — launched a crowdfunding effort to raise funds to assist in the defense of Richard Allen, the man charged with the killing of Abigail Williams and Liberty German.

In this episode, we take a look at the issue of crowdfunding legal defense in general by speaking with Julienne Pasichow and Hilary Gerzhoy, two attorneys who covered this topic in an informative article for Law 360

https://www.law360.com/articles/1727278/avoiding-the-ethical-pitfalls-of-crowdfunded-legal-fees

In response to The Murder Sheet's request for comment, Defense Diaries creator Bob Motta threatened to "respond in kind' to any criticism and invited himself on the program. As noted in the episode, Mr. Motta has a history of spreading falsehoods about the Delphi case and the creators of The Murder Sheet.

We also discuss some of the details of the Allen fundraiser in particular, including the role of a prominent defense YouTuber.

Finally we will cover the recent incident where graphic crime scene photos were shown on a YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder, specifically the murder of two children.
0:07.0	So one topic of interest in the Delphi murders case recently has been that of defense crowd funding.
0:15.2	So a fundraiser was set up for Richard Allen, the man accused of murdering teenagers, Liberty
0:21.2	German, and Abigail Williams back in 2017 and that fundraiser had to do
0:26.0	with getting money for trial experts to put on his defense. Now there's a lot of complicated issues
0:35.0	and discussions to be had around this.
0:37.4	But in order to sort out the general topic
0:40.4	of crowdfunding defense, we reached out to two excellent experts, attorneys Hillary
0:46.8	gourjoy and Julian Pasachau. So these are two attorneys who covered this
0:51.5	topic in an informative article for law
0:53.6	360 and frankly to be completely transparent and open with you we felt it was
0:59.5	really important to get the views of attorneys about this, more specifically
1:05.3	attorneys who were in no way affiliated with this case. A lot of the voices we've
1:10.8	seen comment on the fundraising has come from attorneys
1:14.1	affiliated with the defense. Yes and so essentially these attorneys will be
1:18.6	speaking on the general topic not a lot of specific questions about Delphi because that's a bit of a unique
1:23.7	situation but we felt it was important to start with those building blocks.
1:27.1	After we hear from them we're going to come back and talk about more of the specifics of this particular case involving Richard
1:35.5	Allen's fundraising, maybe offer a few opinions about that.
1:40.7	And then at the very end of the program we're going to have a few minutes where we talk about something that's been going on with YouTube.
1:48.0	So it's going to be a pretty busy episode and let's get started.
1:53.0	My name is Anya Kane, I'm a journalist.
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