“His lawyer was awful.”
I hope the lawyer wasn’t so bad that it’ll be grounds for an appeal.
He wasn’t bad. He was clearly hoping for and trying to demonstrate it was manslaughter. It’s all they had given the overwhelming evidence it wasn’t self defense. He was not a public defender. A PD was originally assigned but then they hired this guy who is considered on of the top criminal attorneys in the area. They won’t win an appeal on incompetence of counsel. That is a very heavy burden and is VARY rarely successful.
I suspect that will be his first appeal. Karmelo and fam raised a million on gofundme and yet pleaded poor so Karmelo had to settle for a public defender.