June 10, 2026

Karmelo Anthony Sentenced to 35 Years for Murdering Austin Metcalf at a Texas Track Meet. Jury Rejects "Sudden Passion

Karmelo Anthony Sentenced to 35 Years for Murdering Austin Metcalf at a Texas Track Meet. Jury Rejects "Sudden Passion

A full-episode deep dive. On Tuesday, a Collin County jury found nineteen-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder for fatally stabbing seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf at a 2025 high school track meet in Frisco, Texas — rejecting his claim of self-defense after deliberating less than three hours, then sentencing him to 35 years in prison after rejecting his "sudden passion" claim. Garret Fisher walks through the verdict, the rainy afternoon under the team tent that ended Austin Metcalf's life, the medical testimony that made jurors gasp, and the sentencing that now sends Anthony to prison with parole possible after roughly seventeen years. He also takes on the racial firestorm that consumed this case online — and why the people inside the courtroom kept saying it had nothing to do with race.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and Justice.

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I'm Garrett Fisher. Today is Wednesday, June tenth, twenty twenty six.

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Yesterday afternoon, in a courthouse in McKinney, Texas, a jury

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of twelve took less than three hours to decide that

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what happened under a team tent at a high school

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track meet was not self defense. It was murder. Nineteen

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year old Carmelo Anthony was found guilty of murdering seventeen

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year old Austin Metcalf, who was stabbed once in the

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chest on a rainy afternoon in April of last year

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and died in his twin brother's arms. Anthony was seventeen

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himself at the time. He never denied that he did

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the stabbing. The whole case was about one question, was

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he defending himself or was he the one who started it?

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And twelve people answered that question fast. Today we're doing

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the whole story to finish the day it happened, the evidence,

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the jury sat through, the verdict, and the strange high

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stakes fight that's still going on as I record this,

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a fight over a single legal phrase that could be

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the difference between this young man walking out in a

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couple of years or never walking out at all. And

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we're going to talk honestly about the part of this

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case that had nothing to do with the courtroom and

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everything to do with the country. Look, I'm gonna be

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honest with you. This one has been loud for over

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a year. So let's turn the volume down and just

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go through what actually happened. Start with yesterday, because that's

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the news. The jury got the case late Tuesday morning

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after closing arguments, and they were back in under three hours.

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When the word guilty was read, the courtroom nearly came apart.

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The judge, John Roach had already warned everybody to keep

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their emotions in check, and he meant it. Anthony, who

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reporters in the room said was visibly shaking, dropped his

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head into his hands. His mother started to cry, and

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on the other side of that room sat Hunter Metcalf,

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Austin's twin brother, making his first appearance in the courtroom.

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Leaning forward as the verdict landed, here's what the verdict

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means mechanically, because it matters for everything that comes next.

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Anthony was charged with murder. The judge had also given

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the jury the option of the lesser charge, manslaughter, which

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is when you cause a death recklessly rather than intentionally.

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The jury looked at both and chose murder. They decided

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this wasn't a reckless accident. In Texas, that carries a

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sentence of anywhere from five years all the way up

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to ninety nine years or life. But and this is

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the part everyone's watching right now. The moment the verdict

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came in, the trial rolled straight into a second phase.

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In Texas, the same jury that convicts you can also

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be the jury that sentences you. And the judge told

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those jurors they have to answer one more question before

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they pick a number. They have to decide whether Carmelo

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Anthony acted under what the law calls sudden passion. I'll

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explain that fully in a few minutes, because it's the

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whole ballgame. Now for the moment, just hold onto this.

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If the jury says yes, sudden passion applies, the charge

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drops to a second degree felony, and the most he

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can get his twenty years with a floor of two.

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If they say no, it stays murder, and the ceiling

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is life. Two years on one end, life on the other.

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As I'm recording this, those twelve people are still in

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the room deciding which it is. Let's go back to

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how we got here. April second, twenty twenty five, a

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district wide track meet at a Frisco stadium just north

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of Dallas. It was raining. Kids from a bunch of

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different schools were there, and at these meets, each school

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sets up its own tent, a little home base where

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that school's athletes hang out between events. Austin Metcalf was

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a junior at Frisco Memorial High School. He was under

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his school's tent. Carmelo. Anthony went to a different school,

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Frisco Centennial, and on that rainy day, the testimony was

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that Centennial was the only school there without a tent

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of its own, so Anthony ended up under Memorial's tent,

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under Austin's tent. The teenagers who were there testified to

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what happened next, and I want to be straight with

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you that they didn't agree on every detail, which is

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normal because they were kids watching something terrible happen in

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a few seconds. But here's the shape of it that

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the jury heard. Anthony was told he didn't belong under

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that tent, and he was asked to leave. More than

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once by several different kids, not just Austin. The prosecution

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says Anthony refused that he got hostile, that he said

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things like move me, make me, and touch me and

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see what happens. They say Austin Metcalf, trying to be

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the one to handle it, stepped up and told him

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to go, and then somebody made physical contact. This is

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where the witnesses split. Some said Austin touched Anthony lightly

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with one hand, some said he pushed him with two.

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One said he pushed with one hand and grabbed his

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hoodie with the other. I'm not going to hand you

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one clean version of that half second because the people

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who were standing right there don't agree on it, and

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that disagreement actually became one of the central fights of

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this trial. What they all agreed on is what Carmelo

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Anthony did. In response. He reached into his backpack, he

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pulled out a folding knife, and he drove it once

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into Austin Metcalf's chest. I want to give you a

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content warning here because the medical testimony is hard. The

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Colin County Chief Medical Examiner, doctor Elizabeth Ventura, told the

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jury that the knife went through the bone in the

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center of Austin's chest and punctured his heart. She described

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the wound as large and gaping, and she told the

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jury plainly that it was not survivable, that the only

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chance would have been to already be on an operating

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table with a surgeon standing there, and even then maybe not.

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When prosecutors put the autopsy photographs on the screen, jurors

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gasped and the part I can't shake. Austin Metcalf died

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right there on the ground at a track meet, in

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the arms of his twin brother Hunter. Body camera footage

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played for the jury caught Hunter in those minutes, pleading

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for someone to help, saying he's my best friend, He's

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my brother, coming apart at one point, just praying out loud,

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seventeen years old, watching his twin die on the infield.

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Nobody should have to carry that. Hunter Metcalf will carry

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it for the rest of his life. As for Anthony,

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he ran. Witnesses said he took off and tried to

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blend into the crowd of kids leaving the stadium, But

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when an officer caught up to him before he'd even

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been asked a single question, Anthony said it himself. I'm

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not alleged I did it. He put his hands on me.

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I told him not to. That was his account from

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the very first minute, and it never changed. I did it,

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and I did it because he touched me first. That

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became the defense. His attorney, Mike Howard, told the jury

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that Austin had no legal right to put his hands

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on Anthony, that Texas law does not require you to

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wait until you've already been hit before you protect yourself,

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and that what you're looking at is a kid who

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reacted in a split second of fear and chaos when

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somebody bigger than him made the first move. The defense

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rested without putting Anthony on the stand, which is his

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absolute right, and you can't hold it against him. The

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prosecution's answer, from veteran prosecutor Bill Wirski was blunt. You

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don't get to meet a shove with a stab, and

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you really don't get to do it when you're the

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one who provoked the shove. He took a knife to

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attract me. Whirsky told them that's not a mistake, that's

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a choice. The jury agreed. So now we're back to

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that one phrase, sudden passion. Here's what it actually means

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in plain language. Texas lets a jury decide that a

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killing happened in the grip of an immediate overwhelming emotion rage, terror, panic,

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brought on by the victim with no time for the

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defendant to cool off. It's not an excuse that gets

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you off. He's already convicted of murder. It only changes

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the sentence. If the jury finds sudden passion. The whole

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thing drops from a first degree felony to a second

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degree felony, and the range collapses from five to life

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down to two to twenty. And here's the wrinkle that

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makes this case so strange. Two to twenty is the

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exact same range as the manslaughter charge. These same jurors

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already rejected when they chose to convict him of murder.

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So the defense is, in a sense asking them to

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walk part of the way back to say, yes, it

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was murder, but it was murder in a moment of

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provoked passion, so sentence him like it was the lesser thing.

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The state is fighting it hard, and their argument is clean.

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Sudden passion only counts if the provocation came from the

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person who got killed, and the prosecution's entire case was

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that the provoker here wasn't Austin Metcalf, it was Carmelo Anthony.

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You can't pick the fight, they argued, and then claim

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the fight overwhelmed you. The burden is on the defense

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to prove it, and Worsky told the jurors in a

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line that's going to stick with me, mercy to the

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guilty is cruelty to the innocent. He put up a

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photo of the Metcalf twins, one alive and one gone,

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and he read the family's names out loud, the mother,

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the father, the surviving twin, and called each one a

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life sentence of its own. The defense's answer was the

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only card it had left humanity. They called one witness

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in that sentencing phase, Anthony's mother. She stood up and begged.

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She told the jury he's her oldest, her firstborn, that

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he's sorry for what he did, and she asked them

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please to have mercy on her son. And by the

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accounts of people in the room, Anthony wept while she spoke.

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I'm not going to pretend that isn't a real and

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human thing. It is. A mother is watching the system

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decide whether she gets her son back at twenty one

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or at sixty. But here's where I have to do

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the harder part of this job, because there's a version

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of this case that lives entirely online and it's ugly,

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and it's been ugly for over a year. Carmelo Anthony

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is black. Austin Metcalf was white. And the moment this happened,

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the Internet did what the Internet does. It grabbed two

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dead and living teenagers and turned them into avatars for

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a fight about race in America. There were people insisting

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Anthony was a victim of a racist system. There were

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people insisting his supporters were using race to excuse a killing.

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There were dueling fundraisers, viral posts, and yesterday there were

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crowds outside that McKinney courthouse behind barricades, some holding signs

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that read justice for Austin, some shouting in each other's faces,

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with deputies physically putting space between them. And here's the

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thing that I think matters, and I want to say

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it carefully. Inside the courtroom, the lawyers on both sides,

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the prosecution and the defense, both told the jury this

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case was not about race. The defense said it directly.

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As much as people on the outside want to make

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it about that, it's not. There was a fight during

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jury selection over whether the panel was fair, something called

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a bats And challenge, where the defense objected that potential

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jurors were being struck because of their race, and that

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issue may well come up again on appeal. Because yes,

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this is not over. A guilty verdict is not the

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last word. Anthony has the right to appeal, and a

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case this scrutinized will be appealed. So I'm not closing

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the book today. I'm telling you where it stands. What

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I'm not gonna do is pretend the loudest voices on

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the internet were in that room. They weren't twelve people were.

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They heard the witnesses, they saw the video, they sat

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through the autopsy photos, and they reached a unanimous verdict.

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You can believe the system got it right, or you

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can believe it got it wrong. That's the appeal's job

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to test. But the people who actually did the work

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of judging this case looked at the evidence and called

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it murder. There's a playbook for turning a dead teenager

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into a hashtag. I'd rather just say his name. We

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have a laid update. This next part was recorded after

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the show you just heard. Here's what happened on Tuesday evening.

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The same jury that convicted Carmelo Anthony came back with

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a number thirty five years in prison. There was an

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audible gasp in the courtroom when the judge read it.

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And he'll be eligible for parole only after he serves

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half of that, somewhere around seventeen years. And that number

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settles the fight. We spent this whole episode on. Thirty

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five years sits well above the twenty year ceiling that

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sudden passion would have capped him at, which means the

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jury rejected the sudden passion claim outright. They did not

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give the defense the break it was asking for. The

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judge had already warned the gallery that any outburst would

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get them removed, and as the sentence landed, two women

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called out we love you, Carmelo, and were escorted out.

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And then the moment that should always come last. Members

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of Austin Metcalf's family, including his father and his aunt,

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stood and read victim impact statements, the people who actually

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lost him, finally getting to say it out loud. But

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before we go, let's do the thing this show always does.

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Austin Metcalf was seventeen years old. He was a junior

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an athlete, somebody's son and a twin, and he bled

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out on a track infield in the arms of the

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brother who shared his birthday because he stepped up and

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told another kid to leave a tent. Hunt Metcalf has

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to wake up every day now as a twin without

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his twin, Megan and Jeff Metcalf have to live in

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a house with an empty room. Whatever number that jury

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comes back with, it doesn't fill that room. Somebody has

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to say his name, Austin Metcalf. If this episode meant

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something to you today, share it. Send it to one person,

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the friend who's been arguing about this case for a year,

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the one who's only ever seen the loud version of it.

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Send them the version that actually walks through what happened.

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That's how this show grows, one person handing it to

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one person. And if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment.

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Tell me where you land was this murder? Was it

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self defense? And what number would you have written down

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if you were duror number thirteen? I read them, and

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I want to know how you're calling it. Wherever else

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you're watching or listening, leave a note and let me

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know you're out there until tomorrow. Do better legal disclaim.

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Anthony admitted the stabbing and argued self defense. The jury

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rejected that and convicted him. He retains the right to appeal,

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and issues raised during the trial, including a bats and

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challenge over jury selection, maybe revisited on appeal, so this

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case is not legally final. The teenage eye witnesses differed

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on exactly how the physical contact happened, which is why

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we did not give a single definitive version of it.

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This case became a national flashpoint, much of it framed

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in racial terms. Online. We've reported what was argued and

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decided inside the courtroom, where attorneys on both sides told

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jurors the case was not about race. We worked from court,

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TV and corroborating wire and local reporting including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN,

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Fox News Nation, and WFAA, and we set aside a

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single tabloid characterization of the medical evidence that we could

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not confirm. We're a podcast, not a court room. This

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is commentary, not legal fact, and when we get something wrong,

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we correct it on air. This is Daily Crime and Justice.

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I'm Garrett Fisher,