Do you want to wager that Carmelo will serve out his full sentence? I don’t. My prediction is that he’ll serve maybe 10 years, then be release for some TBD procedural reason. And even if not that, I’ll bet he gets early parole. As in really early.
He's in deep red Texas.
He'll serve his full term alright.
In fact his appeal was thrown out very quickly despite lefties here on FR swearing he'd win it.