Posted on 05/25/2025 4:55:12 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Karmelo Anthony, the teenager charged in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, will be tried as an adult in Texas.
The incident took place last month during a championship track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
According to police, Anthony stabbed Metcalf following a dispute about where he was sitting.
The case is being handled by the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, just north of Dallas.
Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder and will face trial as an adult. This is because Texas allows minors aged 16 or 17 to be tried as adults for certain crimes.
If convicted, Anthony could face life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. However, he will not be eligible for the death penalty.
“The Supreme Court has said not only can you not seek the death penalty against someone who committed a crime when they’re 17, you can’t even get them life without parole,” said Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis.
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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.
(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.)
It’s pure hypocrisy!
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?
“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.”
On X people are claiming a video exists which has not been made public and the speculation is that it is very bad for the little...murderer.
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.
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