On Monday afternoon, the defense team officially rested its case without calling Karmelo Anthony to the stand. According to multiple media observers the defense was very weak. The defense witnesses ended up being solid witnesses for the prosecution upon cross examination.
The evidence against Karmelo Anthony is overwhelming. The defense was reliant upon previous fabrications sold to the media that did not prove out in the courtroom.
The prosecution witnesses were consistent and strong in the case against the accused.
The jury was dismissed for the day Monday and is expected to return Tuesday morning for closing arguments.
There was an initial discussion about a plea agreement, likely spurred by the weight of the prosecution. However, no plea deal was reached, likely rejected by the prosecution, and the case is now headed toward jury deliberation.
Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process. The decision to push the case to trial was as much for financial gain as it was a roll of the dice on whether their attempted racist narrative would work.
The jury will be sequestered during deliberation.
Karmelo Anthony is ineligible for both the death penalty and life in prison without parole since he was only 17 when he killed Austin Metcalf.
The maximum sentencing he’ll receive is life in prison with the possibility of parole, if he is convicted on his first-degree murder charge. This means parole eligibility after 30 years, or half of his sentence, depending on the specifics.
I am truly sorry to evoke this thought, but the DEATH PENALTY is the ultimate deterrent to the horrific, extreme ills that plaque our society. Extreme deviances in human behavior are incurable, and society should not bear the burden of their presence.. 🙁
Do not be sorry, I so agree. We have become an extremely weak populace when it comes to punishment for capital crimes. ENOUGH. What this animal did was plain murder…punishment should be death or life in prison. PERIOD. There is no question Anthony is guilty as hell.
His behavior is incompatible with a civilized society…remove him from that civilized society forever.
I’m more of the opinion a horrible short sentence: manual labor for 12+ hours a day, 7 days a week (if you’re busy working and sleeping you ain’t got no time to play prison fights and drug running) which is then increase 5 fold upon a 2nd offense.
Prisons need to be humanitary (clean water, decent food, etc) but need to be a place no one wants to return to: who wants to spend 7 days a week busting their buttt?? Right now prison is too easy and induces recidivism, they don’t care if they go back.
Bologna sandwiches on white bread. Millions lived on those growing up.
I still eat them
With onions and mustard.
Peanut butter!
Don’t forget the bacon!
now don’t be getting all uppity…. ha!
Three squares and a bed. Improved life for some. Should bring back the chain gangs or make them dig holes then fill them back up for 10 hours a day
I remember going into the Maryland State Penitentiary back in 1984 during a prison guard strike. I was a member of the Maryland State Police Tactical Team. Our group were in there a llittle over 24 hours. We ate in the prison chow hall and I remember those bologna sandwiches you speak of. By the way, the notorious South Wing of this prison housed the worse prisoners in the whole state.
You had bologna?
During the depression, my father and his siblings (8 of them) would take eggs to the local store and trade them for one slice of bologna and a loaf of white bread. White, store-bought bread was a treat because all they had at home on the farm was homemade bread… and store-bought bread was kind of like cake to them. They would go down to the lake, rub the slice of bologna between two slices of bread so they would have the taste of bologna on the bread, and each kid would have a ‘sandwich’ of bread only. Once all the bread had been doled out, they all would play numbly-peg to see who would actually get the bologna slice for his or her sandwich.
So, yes, they had bologna… but not much bologna.
In my family, balonie was the BREAKFAST and LUNCH of CHAMPIONS! 🙂
With Lebanon balonie for special occasions!!! 🙂
Having worked in correctional health care…the inmates work miracles with commissary items…there won’t be hunger. Trust me.
Fried bologna with Velveeta. Wait – that wouldn’t be a deterrent 🤔
Federal judges have already ruled that inmates can’t be expected to work like you and I did to get by, harsh and unusual punishment ya know. Only western Europe have more cushy prisons than we do.
Back in ol’ Jollyette…circa 90’s…inmates made about 35 cents an hour….and they would tell you that your new license plate had been processed and what the number were on it. That was the primo job….the average job was working in the ‘mattress factory’ were mattresses were made for other IDOC facilities….
Cool hand luke
Prison was NOT “humanitary” for 70-year-old Tina Peters. The prisons she was in were horrible. She was treated horribly, had rotten food (literally), slept on a 2nd tier bunk with no stairs and only one blanket in the winter and 85 degree temps in the summer with no A/C, had to defend herself constantly, NO medical care for her (she is a cancer survivor)….don’t kid yourself – “they” can make prison a hell. But “they” wouldn’t do that to this kid because of his color and age.
The criminal’s family should have to provide food; if not, then the criminal should serve hard labor to pay for it. It’s prison, providing a roof and a dry place to sleep is humane enough. We have homeless vets who get less, among others who are homeless too.
Unfortunately, the threat of the death penalty has no impact on populations without impulse control.
Maybe, but if the death penalty is carried out, their lack of impulse control is no longer a problem.
Threats don’t work when they threatened punishments seldom if ever occur.
Actually punishing people will change everything.
We need to see a lot more death penalties for them to become an actual deterrent again… Was it Ohio that just passed the law to resume the firing squad?
What after effects, (if there are riots or not) that happen here is going to feed into what’s happening over in the UK right now. Screaming BS racism has reached a boiling point in both countries. DEI and minority groups have used the excuse of white privilege so often as a right for them to commit crimes, that it doesn’t hold any substance anymore. People just don’t care about being called a racist anymore… Mainly because 95% of the time they aren’t!
Idaho has the firing squad
Firing squad is an option in SC. Condemned choose the squad, ole’ sparky, or the needle.
Unfortunately, he was a minor when he committed the murder so he won’t get the death penalty. He will either get a life sentence or 5 to 99 years.
No need to be sorry, I agree. When there was a death penalty in all states, a death penalty that was actually carried out swiftly, there were far fewer violent crimes.
In 2026, where there is video evidence, or there is DNA evidence, and it is 100% certain that the convicted is in fact the killer, especially for 1st degree murder, after the verdict of a death sentence is given, the the convicted should go right out the back door and be put to death right then and there because not a single tax payer dollar should go to paying for their incarceration.
If there is only circumstantial evidence, then let them have appeals and such…but once they run out, they too need to be put to death ASAP.
I asked a liberal family member who claimed the death penalty is archaic and cruel and unusual; I didn’t bother to point out that the crimes that need to be awarded the death penalty are what are usually cruel and unusual. I just asked them, “What’s more cruel, a quick death or spending potentially 60 plus years in jail, if convicted at 16/17/18? Isn’t spending an entire lifetime in a 6 by 6 cell cruel?”
They said they refuse to answer that ridiculous question and said the conversation has now gotten insane. I just said, of course it did and chuckled.
We have turned the death penalty into a long life of hundreds of chances to overturn the punishment.
Thus it now deters nothing.
And when we declare certain groups ineligible for the death penalty, we encourage those groups to engage in death penalty crimes.
Not only that, but in the twilight zone we live in if a murderer or rapist is set free by a BH judge, they may go on to do many more murders and rapes.
“If you come to Texas and kill someone, they will kill you back!” ~Ron White
Que the rage machine over this one, when found GUILTY.
The flying monkeys from the idiot brigade will be dispatched by the Leftist morons.
There’s some political value here for them.
Sadly I predict he will get ten years on a lesser murder charge or manslaughter and will be out in five for good behavior.
Then Austin’s brother can track him down.
Hopefully he makes great entertainment for the fellas in his cell block for the next 30yrs
He will probably wish he had gotten the death sentence after being used and abused for the nightly pass around sex toy his punk wise ass will become in a very short time, and they won’t care if he cries for his momma every night. May every night last eternity for him.
I believe there are now federal laws that apply to state institutions with regards to “sexual abuse” of the inmate, not sure if it relates to staff being the perps or all in contact with the inmate. So there are those small protections…and permanent placement in Protective Custody
The jurors should be sequestered for as long as it takes them to move their families.
His only hope with the jury, considering the testimony naming Melo as the aggressor as well as the “alleged” murderer (the politically correct description of the person who went to a track meet ARMED with a knife and used it to take the life of another–no witness disputed the murder).
The biggest question in my mind is: Will Melo mellow and express remorse? It hasn’t happened yet. Is he hoping for an involuntary manslaughter verdict (though when you take a knife to a track meet and then use it, that hardly seems involuntary)!!!!!
Did you say, ‘Will Melo mellow?’
He’ll be “pardoned” by the next leftie autopen.
It would take a democratic governor of Texas to pardon him
“Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process. The decision to push the case to trial was as much for financial gain as it was a roll of the dice on whether their attempted racist narrative would work.
Remember, his family had raised over $600.000 on GOFUNDME and blew through that to the extent that that we taxpayers got to pay for his attorney. Now, they’ll go on another fundraising tear for the appeals, appeals, appeals. It’s a cash cow.
Brave AI regarding TX appellate attorneys costs for a case:
Legal Fees for Clients For individuals hiring an appellate attorney for a criminal appeal, costs typically range from $25,000 to $40,000, with an average of approximately $30,000.
These fees can vary based on the length of the trial, the severity of the charge, and whether the case is state or federal. Additional costs include trial transcripts, which generally cost around $1,000 per day of trial.
For complex civil cases or high-profile matters, fees can exceed $100,000.
Wondering if he will ever realize how he was used by his family?
Sold Out the 17 year old boy that was mis-raised as a product of a DEI society for a couple $M…sounds like a solid win for True Racism…that from within!
It’s a version of the ghetto lottery. His family cries racism, sets up a gofundme account and all the ‘Karens’ and liberal idiots donate to the cause enriching “Marshmellow’s” family. It happens it every big city where a 13% tribal member is involved.
Early evenings, in my SW suburban ‘hood of Chicago…one often sees young families piling out of a Caddy Escalade, young families at the Walmart parking lot…
All humans are made as the imagers of God, and in His image. That is why He establishes the penalty for one person intentionally murdering another as death.
Did this person purposely stab the other person or not?
Motive is irrelevant. How bad your life has been is irrelevant. What mental issues you have is irrelevant. Did you mean to do it or was it an accident?
Our “justice system” completely complicates that simple concept into an injustice system.
The prosecutor was turning defense witnesses into prosecution witnesses in the cross examinations.
All the defense witnesses ended up saying Karmelo was the aggressor and had no business being in the tent. For all intents and purposes, there was no defense.
And the progressive cult will have their next transparently guilty as sin idol with which to invoke more mass rioting.
The issue at hand is always anything and everything in furtherance of the revolution.
Mass rioting and burning down a city might fly in Minneapolis MN, but Texas will roll out the Rangers and the National Guard at the first hint of a riot.
And about a million of us Texans asking to be deputized.
Perhaps.
There will be riots in multiple cities and States assuredly this Summer in time for the midterm elections.
Anthony walked up to the victim, taunted him while reaching for his knife, then stabbed him in the chest. Not even even Perry Mason could defend that.
Saw a former prosecutor/current defense attorney on TV explaining that “self defense” does not work as a strategy when the situation was instigated by the defendant.
‘if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow.’
-Donald Trump
Still cant figure out why Trump would hire Pam Bondi for AG. Especially when Pams partner the 2020 election fraud denier Susie Wiles was the one likely trying to install her.
Good old George Zimmerman – the man Pam Bondi broke the law for trying to railroad him.
Restoring election integrity is paramount with a small window of success with Trump in charge. The AG’s role in this is critical. It must have been a major set back when Trump realized Bondi is not and never was up to the task.
Funny how Susie Wiles changed her mind, at least publicly, about election fraud shortly thereafter….isnt it?
The Judge should give a directed verdict so the Jurors aren’t held out to dry.
Facts dont matter when its a nuffin we seen that , they get a pass ,you still have frightened whities celebrating Martin Luther pornographer , Black lies matter in this U.S. one out of 3 aborted but who cares about facts …
“Karmelo Anthony is ineligible for both the death penalty and life in prison without parole since he was only 17 when he killed Austin Metcalf.” Why are juveniles exempt from these penalities?
Indeed, a lot of jurisdictions would make an exception and try a 17 year old as an adult given especially heinous acts.
The age to be considered an adult legally is more arbitrary than not.
I’ve believed for years that age tier sentencing for violent crimes should not exist. There should be no juvenile vs. adult category for murder, rape, torture, or kidnapping.
I would agree but there are those regressives that would find instilling greater personal accountability into the culture is counterproductive to their, shall we say deconstructive ends.
It was premeditated.
30 years doing Cool Hand Luke type labor. How’s that sound Boss?
From a comment on TGP:
“I read that Karmelo Anthony, at the time of the murder, was already suspended from school for carrying a knife at school — the exact same knife later used in the murder, and his suspension included exclusion from any school property or events including athletic events.
Everybody is saying how Karmelo should not have been in the tent. Actually he was under a trespass order (suspension) by the school and should not have been anywhere on the property let alone in the wrong tent.
He and his parents could not have been unaware of the terms of his suspension and exclusion.”
Self defense laws in TX require that you reasonably believe that deadly force is required to prevent death or grievous bodily harm to yourself or another person.
Sexual assault, kidnapping and carjacking are explicitly covered.
Touching him does not rise to that level
Also you cannot be the instigator
In Texas, it will be difficult to argue self-defense when the defendant refuses to take the stand:
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/karmelo-anthony-refuses-to-take-stand-at-murder-trial-and-it-could-sink-his-self-defense-claim/
Karmelo Anthony’s attorney is affiliated with NGAN, a “social justice non-profit”. Its founder has a long rap sheet, and its finances are murky. This reporter asserts that the “Donate” link went straight to ACT BLUE, in 2025:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-organization-behind-the-karmelo-anthony-case/
The left, especially their Act Blue slush fund, sure knows how to pick their saints. Hope the jury does the right thing, and convicts FAST.
HATS OFF!!! to the Judge and Collin County for getting this done right.
I’m betting on Sheriff Skinner ready and waiting…
BRING IT!
guilty
If the leftists retake the country in November 2028, he will probably be back on the street before February 2029.
Karma, meet Karmelo.
I wonder if there is an Open Society plant in the jury box and the Defense knows it.
i hate having to waste one brain cell on this sad excuse for carbon.
Let him go. Odds are good for an earlier death.
Amen. This is the epitome of ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’.
Our permissive society, along with parental abrogation of responsibility, causes this kind of acting out by our youth. This is especially true in our black community, where they all have been brought up to believe they have a free pass to do anything due to their skin color and ability to play the race card.
Time we brought ALL American kids up right, no matter what their color or social class.
In closing, let me state that I believe Mr. and Mrs. Anthony should also be required to serve whatever sentence their son is given. After all, they are the people who made him into the young man he is.
Without having read the comments forthwith…I wondered about the rapid resting of both the defense and the prosecution.
I wonder if that is what will be the basis of his appeals…’ineffective counsel’? Over at one of the other sites I frequent, I finally had to stop reading the comments and just go away…two families and all their family and friends…forever changed…and the flames of racism are fanning that fire…
As one gets older and contemplates their own mortality, there is, in the Christian world, an idea of where it is not for me or others, to ideologically condemn someone to death, or wish them to burn in hell…irrespective of the crime crying out for that justice? That old log in the eye’ sort of thing.
Over at BB, there were reporting’s of the fatal wound (by the ME). Not for the faint of heart.
The social engineering of hate and violence, has got to stop. And that starts with the media that encourages it. It starts in the home. It starts with finding God again. Because under that top layer of ‘epidermis’ where the melanin sits, we all look the same.
Am praying for justice…I don’t know what else to say . And yet, hope for the future.
God Bless Texas and God Bless America.
This will be a tough sell for the Summer of Rage folks who hit the street and get violent every even year election season, but they are not picky. They will use this, the “war” in Iran, the usual climate change and income inequality Marxist bugaboos, ICE and whatever else they are able to weaponize. I expect it will all peak around our 250th year as a nation, because of course that’s what they’ll do.
It is getting close to JUNETEENTH They only need and excuse.
To get an idea of what the defense is up against:
Demographics of Frisco…pop approx. 245k, 9% approx. AA, 48%-50% white, Hispanic about 12%…
highly educated…65-69% have a Bachelors degree, 96-97% high school graduates.
Median home value $642k-$745k, home ownership rage about 65%,
Top industries, professional, tech, scientific, health care, finance/insurance
“Keep in mind if Karmelo Anthony had taken a plea agreement before the trial, his family would not have been able to fundraise from the process.”
Another case of Money for Murder.
What horrible legal advice Anthony’s family got. I’m sure a decent lawyer could have gotten through to them.
While execution may be preferable, the Life in Prison sentence makes me ask some questions.
How did the Life in prison become set at 60 years, so that 30 years is half the sentence?
Does the judge have any discretion in sentencing, especially in a case with such egregious circumstances as this?
The family can approach this two ways.I have seen some families tell the judge that the charges of Anthony (for example) Verses the state are wrong, because the state was not harmed and suffed no loss.
The family diod.
They asked the judge to sentence the accused to time served and let him go the next morning at dawn.
They just asked to be told which door the assailant would emerge from
The other is to ask what the guidline for sentencing are, and what the judge can do.
I have seen judges decide the “Life” was not a specific enough sentence due to the circumstances, and then sentence the assailant to 200 or even 300 years and 1 day.
Then half the sentence may be a fair amount.
What can the judge do to see that justice really is done?
Prisons need to be self sufficient. Grow their own food , daily work assignments. Don’t work, don’t produce, don’t eat.