Content warning. This episode includes discussion of the murder of two children.

So today is Friday, December 20th, 2024. It's been a long time coming. Today was the sentencing of Richard Allen in the Delphine murders case. So we had our trial. We had a verdict, a guilty verdict, and today was the day that

the judge, Judge Francis Gull was going to sit down and sentence convicted murderer,

Richard Allen. We're going to tell you what happened. We're also going to talk some about the

press conference that followed.

I don't think we need to go into quite as much detail about that because my understanding, I haven't checked, but my understandings that was streamed online, there's only a lot of cameras there.

So I imagine that's widely available.

We're still talking about it, just not an expert. We'll talk about our impressions, but like we don't need to go into like, you know, minutia and quotes to the same extent as with the court where things are not broadcast.

Right. But yeah, well, and then we'll announce some kind of exciting news coming up.

Exciting news. So, uh, let's get to it. Let's do it. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist.

And I'm Kevin Greenlee.

I'm an attorney.

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The Sentencing of Richard Allen. The Should we talk by talking about. Should we talk by discussing a little bit what a sentencing hearing format is like?

Sure, we can talk by discussing that.

So basically, both sides get an opportunity if they choose to make their case, in which essentially you would expect the defense team who've lost

to make a case, our clients should get a more lenient sentence. You'd expect the prosecution

team who have won and convicted the defendant to make a case for the sentence to be stronger.

And in this particular case, the defense teams had previously indicated that they were not

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