This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

Richard Allen's entire case starts with a piece of paper, a probable cause affidavit,

signed by Detective Tony Liggett on October 27th of 2022.

That convinced a judge to let police search atlund's home, and that search gave them a gun.

That gun gave them an arrest, and that arrest put Allen in solitary confinement, where

five months later he started confessing while eating his own feces and drinking toilet water.

But here's the problem. The appeal

lays out in devastating detail. According to defense attorneys, that affidavit just was incomplete.

It wasn't just incomplete. It was manipulated, allegedly. Witnesses' descriptions were changed. Key details were omitted and the judge saw

bore little resemblance to what investigators actually knew. If Liggett lied or recklessly misled

that judge, every single piece of evidence had followed, The gun, the bullet match, the confessions,

could be fruit of a poisoned tree. So let's talk about what was actually in that affidavit,

and what wasn't, and whether Richard Allen's conviction was built on a foundation of deception,

because it sure feels like it is. Bob Mata, defense attorney, host of the podcast Defense Diaries, is with us to help us

break all of this down.

I know you guys have been going through it over on your channel this week.

I was watching some of that.

You guys were going page by page.

We're new and like really, really doing this thing.

Let's just kind of start here with some of the specific claims that Detective Liggett told

the judge describing the man she saw wearing a blue jacket and wearing muddy, it was muddy and

bloody. But the actual claim from Sarah Carbar was just muddy,

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