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INDIANAPOLIS — Special Judge Fran Gull in the Delphi double murder trial has issued a Gag Order to prohibit the State and the Defense and investigators from talking to the media about the case against Richard Allen.

But that Order doesn’t extend to the attorney representing Allen’s defense team against the judge’s attempt to boot them off the case and the prosecutor’s Contempt Complaint against the lawyers. That attorney recently spoke with NewsNation affiliate WXIN.

”It seems personal, but again, I don’t know why,” said David Hennessy. “I don’t know what they’ve done to make people so angry.”

Hennessy is a wily and cantankerous Indianapolis defense lawyer who was looking to wind down his 50-year legal career when he witnessed Judge Gull’s attempt last fall to bar attorneys Bradley Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin from Allen’s case.

”I’m the attorney for the attorneys,” Hennessy said. “Basically, in my opinion, their representation was too zealous for her. They were doing too good and exposing the investigation for weaknesses that it had.”

Baldwin and Rozzi were appointed by Judge Gull, the second judge assigned to the case. The originating Carroll County judge, who signed the initial search warrant and Probable Cause Affidavit against Allen, bowed out less than two weeks after Allen’s arrest for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German near the Monon High Bridge on Feb. 13, 2017.

Allen wasn’t arrested until October 2022, when his original interview with an investigator, given within…