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A parole supervisor reportedly lost her job and university professors publicly challenged the verdict, blamed the victim, which seems par for the racist course.
Judge John Roach Jr. is standing firm on his call to keep cameras out of the Karmelo Anthony murder trial. Anthony, convicted of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf, is appealing his reasonable 35-year sentence. The judge brushed off any nonsense about personal connections to Metcalf's family and made it clear that a fair trial was the only thing that mattered, even as the usual suspects scream about racial dynamics.
Karmelo Anthony's fans are still out there melting down over his conviction and sentencing for murder.
Anthony was found guilty and hit with 35 years on Tuesday, June 9, for stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a Frisco, Texas, high school track meet last year.
His supporters insist the convicted killer was just defending himself when he plunged that knife into Metcalf's chest.
One of those supporters is Donna Robinson, a parole supervisor with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Dallas Morning News reported that a Facebook comment cost her the gig. Addressing comments about the sentencing, she wrote that "Anthony would be protected in prison, adding she didn't care about the victim's family's loss," according to the outlet.
Fox News Digital also reported that Howard University professor Stacey Patton penned an opinion piece on her Substack titled "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries," which basically pins the blame on the dead kid.
Another backer, W. Burlette Carter, professor emerita of law at George Washington University, took to X after the verdict to air her grievances.
She made a post on X that said, "Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a jury of his peers. He did not get that. On that ground alone, he is entitled to a new trial. Minorities are not interchangeable. The prosecutor’s reported proffered reasons for striking all black jurors, that they were teachers, appears to be pretext. Anthony needs a new lawyer on appeal and in a new trial."
Anthony's trial featured jurors who are fellow U.S. citizens, also known as a "jury of one's peers." In all criminal prosecutions, the U.S. Constitution says the accused has "the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed."
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