Content warning. This episode contains discussion of the murder of two girls as well as suicide.

If you're in the United States and you or someone you know is dealing with suicidal thoughts,

call 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. The leak of discovery materials and strategy was a pivotal moment in the Delphi case. It was the catalyst that saw

defendant Richard Allen's original defense team, Bradley Rosie and Andrew

Baldwin, depart the case. Now of course they are fighting to come back on and to force

Judge Francis Gull off the case saying that she's the one who mishandled things.

In January the Indiana Supreme Court will hear both sides.

They'll argue who should get to remain.

Regardless of which side ends up prevailing, it's fair to say the leak has changed things permanently in this case.

As a quick recap, Mitchell or Mitch Westerman admitted to being the original leaker.

We spoke to Westerman once, back in March of this year, for our profile on Baldwin.

Westerman previously worked as the operation manager for Baldwin's firm, and the two were personal friends.

Baldwin confided things about the case to Westerman,

because Baldwin admired Westerman's sense of strategy.

Our understanding is that those discussions in and of themselves aren't a breach.

Lawyers can bounce around ideas with trusted confidence.

The problem is what Westerman seemingly did with that information.

He passed it on to others. He also admitted to visiting

Baldwin's office back in August and coming upon the discovery materials in a conference

room that he went into to wait for his friend. He snapped photos of the images and then leaked them.

He admitted that an assigned affidavit.

Westerman passed on those discovery materials to a man we refer to as R to protect his family's privacy.

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