[If the roles were reversed, it would have been George Floyd 2.0 with wall to wall media coverage and of course riots, looting and carnage. Jasmine Crockett would have lead an African ceremonial dance in the Rotunda.]
How about life with the possibility of parole after 85 years?
And that would be correct.
In earlier days after interviewing witnesses/trial, he would have been found guilty and hung within a month. Or less.
What he did to that kid was horrific!.
Just great. He will probably do 10 years, then be released in his late 20s with the accumulated knowledge of a generation of career criminals, only to terrorize or murder someone else because he will not have learned to control the impulses of his hindbrain.
They obviously have some brutal witness statements, describing the event and then regarding the kid choking on his own blood and bleeding out in his brothers arms.
I’m sure the family has been careful to keep the gofundme contributions separate from Karmelo’s assets, so they’ll enjoy the money and there won’t be anyway for a subsequent civil suit to recover that. it’s sick to think about what some people are thinking when they give money to this guy’s defense. Or, maybe I’m wrong, perhaps they really do just care about the defendant’s right to an effective defense.
This little POS is going to find out how prison showers work rather quick.
He needs to face the death penalty.
If they get the conviction, he and his family will run their mouth’s to the point that someone permanently shuts them up.
Appropriate charges, now let’s see a solid conviction and long sentence of incarceration. Let justice be done, and let all the facts be broadcast, so all the “Justice for ‘Melo!” morons out there will be shown as the cretins they are.
“If convicted, Anthony could face life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.”
That’s highly doubtful. The race card has suffered a lot in the past year or so but still holds some sway. I’d almost bet that the little murderous thug gets home confinement for 2 years and 500 hours “community service.”
The 2012 SCOTUS opinion in Miller v. Alabama, forbidding life sentences without parole being given to those 17 years old or younger was more psycholbabble excrement, this time coming out of Kagan, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor. Dissenting to such a radical judicial opinion were Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.
The majority justices in both decisions claimed such sentences were "cruel and unusual punishment", prohibited by the 8th Amendment. Yet these justices saw no problem of cruel and unusual punishment in allowing innocent babies to be butchered to death in the womb.
This poses an interesting situation: we know what prisoners do to “child killers” amongst their cell blocks, so would Karmelo me considered in that category among the inmates?
Karmelo Anthony’s supporters on X keep claiming it was self defense.
It was at a school event. I remember school: fights, pushing and shoving, cussing, bullies, shucking…DAILY. you know what I don’t remember happening? At ANY school event at any school in my area?
someone getting stabbed in their heart.
Twas murder most foul.
PS
Grok says knife murders at school are so rare it isnt sure if any happened last year, at all. Except this one.