Three judges in Indianapolis are reading Richard Allen's appeal, and Indiana's response brief is doing something a response brief almost never does — it's refusing to fight on the facts. The Delphi defense raised a van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. They raised a confession in which Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German — when the medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. They raised an alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators, whose weapon was never collected, whose phone was never searched. Indiana's answer to most of it: waiver, procedure, harmless error. Filed wrong. Argued too late. When a prosecution that holds a 130-year conviction defends it on paperwork instead of the underlying record, that tells you something about what's actually in the record. The State isn't defending the trial. The State is trying to keep three judges from ever reading it. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part One of a three-part panel on where Richard Allen's appeal actually stands. They walk through Indiana's procedural strategy, why the recorded-over interview lands harder in an appeal than at trial, and what the selective admission of Allen's jailhouse calls — one heard by the jury, two excluded, including the call where Allen asks his own father how much longer he can stay lucid — does to the voluntariness question three judges now have to answer. Three judges. No more paper. A decision coming. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #HarmlessError #AlternativeSuspect #TrueCrime