Delphi: Richard Allen’s Defense Calls The State’s Case a Paper Tiger

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 5, 2026 · 18m

Richard Allen’s appellate defense team filed a reply brief and motion for oral arguments before the Indiana Court of Appeals, characterizing the State’s case as “superficial inference stacking” built on “tunnel vision into the wrong man.” Attorneys Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman wrote that “the State’s case was a paper tiger, and the trial court systematically barred Allen from lighting a match.”The defense’s reply responds to the State’s brief filed in March, which argued Allen’s conviction should stand and characterized each alleged error as “harmless.” The defense counters that the…