Prosecutors in the upcoming double homicide trial in Delphi, Indiana, are looking to ban the defense from using certain words in front of the jury.
Prosecutors sent a request to Judge Fran Gull seeking to prohibit words such as “Odinism,” “cult,” and “ritual killing,” ABC 6 reported. The prosecution argues that using those words could confuse and indoctrinate a jury.
Richard Allen will be on trial for allegedly kidnapping and murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German on a Delphi hiking trail in 2017.
The prosecution also wants to ban the names of certain people mentioned throughout court documents of the investigation, including as witnesses, WTHR reported. Allen’s attorneys, Brad Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin, have claimed in court documents that it was actually members of an Odinist cult that killed the teen girls, but that the alternate suspects were…
