Content warning, this episode contains discussion of the murder of two girls.

So on January 22nd, 2024, there is yet another update in the Delphi Murders case,

which is of course the case against Richard M Allen, who is accused

of murdering Delphi teenagers Abigail Williams and Liberty German back in 2017.

And of course what happened on the 22nd is that Judge Gulch who had had several outstanding motions and orders on her desk shortly after the return of attorneys Baldwin and Rosie made a lot of decisions.

So we are going to talk about those decisions and try to figure out what it might mean for the future of the case.

My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist.

And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney.

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murder cases. We're the Murder Sheet. And this is the Delphi murders.

Judge Francis Gall rules on the Franks motion. I'm going to be. So, Okay, so this is a pretty short filing from the judge in this case. It's only really one and a half pages.

But it's got a big impact.

It packs in a lot of stuff because in our title we say she rules on the Franks motion,

but she also ruled on some other stuff too, including the motion in Limineine. The motion in limine was when the

defense team of Baldwin in Rosie filed a motion saying basically the ballistics evidence is so unreliable it shouldn't be put in front of the jury.

Right. And that is something that has worked in some states that some judges are moving back from ballistics and

toolmark identification evidence.

So that's not unheard of in that larger context in Indiana. That's not really been the case so far at least.

So I think a lot of people who are observing this saw again many many

opportunities to try to take a hit at that ballistics evidence. The motions

that the defense filed filed really could be seen as a multi-pronged attack to try to get the

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