Posted on 06/09/2026 12:47:41 PM PDT by Morgana
Killer Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet.
Anthony, now 19, sobbed, and his family burst into tears as the judge read the verdict on Tuesday.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours after the defense and prosecution delivered closing arguments.
Anthony claimed he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Metcalf, 17, with a folding knife after a heated argument at the high school event in Frisco in April 2025.
The case shocked America, and the discussion surrounding it quickly became racially fraught.
During closing arguments, prosecutors eviscerated Anthony's self-defense claim and encouraged jurors to find him guilty of murder.
'What is important is not motive. It's mindset. Mindset. He took a knife to a track meet,' Collin County First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye said.
'[Anthony] of course, felt empowered that he was going to come out on top of any encounter. You don't get to meet a shove with a stab, especially if you provoke the shove.'
Wirskye added, 'Why didn't he just walk away. He could have left the tent at any time. He didn't. He didn't abandon the encounter.'
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“That has to take a couple of hours.”
In the juries I’ve been on, that process took only about 15 minutes. It was interesting to notice that how a person presents himself — dresses, carries himself, etc. — often is how the Foreman is chosen.
(I purposely acted like a shrinking violet to avoid that.)
Hmmm... I thought it was on Court TV. People here were posting that when the verdict came in his mother was crying, and he “sobbed”. Poor baby. I assumed they were watching in real time.
“Lunch.”
Of course. I should’ve thought...
Some actually did say yes. Family emergencies, etc.
OK ... I can understand someone saying that.
But in my idiotic youth, eons ago, I DID drive drunk a couple of times.
I DO NOT recommend anyone doing it ... legalities aside, it’s incredibly dangerous and I’m fortunate to be alive.
No. The descriptiobs were from reporters inside the courtroom who periodically reported. I did see a picture of Kamelo Anthony sobbing but mo images during the trial.
Many years ago we even took our hunting rifles to school with us; nothing ever happened then either.
Damn shame he was not 18 and considered an adult. He would have got to ride the needle to hell.
Jury deliberations were 3 hours which really means they voted guilty immediately and waited a few hours to give the verdict. The jury was all white.
It should also be noted what a mixed jury did in Jasper, Texas some years ago. Three white guys drug a black man to death behind a pickup. It should be noted all were in the same prison once but out. I suspect this was a prison feud that continued to the outside. That jury of whites and blacks from a rural community gave them the needle to hell.
Culture
Race
Ethnicity
Identity
I don’t care what folks blame
The word used argument is a diversion from empirical observation and truth
It’s a chicken egg question that’s unresolvable and some groups just lag and are more problematic
Worldwide
PS: in Belfast looks like they may have picked wrong wood nation
Should have got at least half of max or nearly 50 years
Behave do 25
Out at 42
Half his adult less than that actually
Personally I’d have kept his in till his 50s
I’ve got buddies did almost 30 in feds for freighter loads weed no violence
It’s ridiculous sentencing disparities
Sentences assigned for crimes across the US are not proportionate to the seriousness of the crime or the associated violence, injury and risk to the victims.
Sentencing guidelines obviously developed as a hodgepodge not via a top down, rational process.
Making sentencing more equitable would punish the most serious crimes very severely in an effortt to deter crime and remove threats to the population.
Some sentences are ridiculously light ex. for rape, torture, negligent homicide, especially DUI. Others seem excessive when additional fines and restitution would do more to make the victim whole.
Sometimes it seems that theft of $ is punished more severely than murder, rape or torture even of children unless committed by a favored group, such as Somali.
I doubt he will do anywhere near that time after the appeal that the jury was "biased" and that he didn't get a "fair" trial because there were no black jurors, which would have resulted in a hung jury.
After the successful appeal, there will be a new trial with black jurors resulting in a hung jury due to 'jury nullification' and then the DA will simply decide not to appeal any further. I hope to be proven wrong.
Fed 84 law 87 instituting guidelines are tough
States are crazy
In my home state you used to be able to get out in like 3 for murder
A few states now require half or two thirds
But like u said I don’t know how to fix that
I think we have a larger percentage of incarcerated of any non authoritarian country
Mostly drug laws and minority crime I think
Take out minority crime and we’re somewhere tween Switzerland and Singapore
Crazy
The U.S. is fifth globally per capita, behind El Salvado, Cuba, Rwanda and Turkmenistan.
We are first globally with over 1.8 million behind bars, ahead of China at 1.69 million behind bars, but China's per capita is about 1/5 that of the U.S.
It worked for Bukelele
I think 40,000
Supposedly El Salvador is safer than Switzerland
Pretty place and best looking gals in Central America
My oldest boy has two sisters he sees there when he can
They are smokin
Colombian soon to be cheef says he’s gonna try that
Maybe but he’s got two decently equipped standing revolutionary armies to contend with that have been there a very long time
Still it’s a step
El Salvador does have great looking women... Nicaragua puts up good competition, first wife family from there, gorgeous 5’ 95 pounds c-cup hair down to her waist and one of the best cooks I’ve ever met.
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