The Psychology of Withholding Evidence | What’s Happening in the Delphi Richard Allen Case?

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

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What happens when a prosecutor is so convinced of their own story that they ignore evidence to the contrary? In the latest twist of the Delphi case, Richard Allen's defense team is calling out the state of Indiana for allegedly withholding key evidence—again. This time, they claim an inmate’s letters suggest that someone else may have confessed to the murders. Is this just another case of legal maneuvering, or are we witnessing confirmation bias run amok in the justice system? Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins the conversation to break down the psychology behind prosecutors who seemingly refuse to let go of their version of events. Are they just determined to win, or is something more insidious at play? And the bigger question—when critical thinking takes a back seat to blind belief, how does that impact justice for all?

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.
0:04.0	You thought the twists in the Delphi case were over.
0:07.0	Think again, because the latest court filing is a full-on legal thriller.
0:15.0	Richard Allen's defense team has accused the state of Indiana of withholding exculpatory evidence, which they have
0:21.4	in the past. They just go into great detail this time. Specifically letters from an inmate
0:26.5	suggesting that someone else confessed to the murders. Now withholding evidence isn't just a legal
0:31.9	issue. It's a psychological game too. What happens when prosecutors consciously or unconsciously start believing in their
0:39.7	own version of events so much that they suppress facts that don't fit? Is this just negligence,
0:46.5	or could this be something deeper, like confirmation bias on steroids? Joining us today is
0:52.7	psychotherapist and author Chavon Scott, an expert in this area to help us
0:57.8	unpack this from a psychological angle. Shavon, when we see a pattern of behavior here, of withholding
1:04.7	evidence in cases like this, which we've seen a lot in this case, is it always about winning at all costs? Is there something more insidious
1:13.7	happening in the mind of someone involved? And I'm not specifically trying to single out
1:19.5	McLean or anybody in this. I'm just kind of talking more broadly. When you're on that one side
1:24.3	of a case and you, you got to see it out, your job is to prosecute this,
1:29.1	how easy do you think it is for prosecutors to get into that, you know, blindsidedness
1:34.3	and just completely ignore facts that are essentially exculpatory for a defendant?
1:40.4	Wouldn't this be a good research study? If somebody could figure out how to do it?
1:45.0	How often does that happen? Because we've seen in other cases that it does happen, that whether it's conscious or simply confirmation bias where they believe a story and then evidence be damned, you know, that comes up to contradict it.
2:01.7	There does seem to be a mindset of winning, regardless of what facts may say.
2:10.3	And, you know, we've seen it over and over again in different cases all over the country,
2:15.2	and it's really disturbing.
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