{"id":1018247,"date":"2026-08-23T02:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1018247\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:24:14","slug":"karmelo-anthony-denied-new-trial-in-murder-of-austin-metcalf-at-texas-track-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1018247\/","title":{"rendered":"Karmelo Anthony denied new trial in murder of Austin Metcalf at Texas track meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\"><b>North Texas (KWTX\/AP) &#8211;<\/b><\/a> Judge Michael Chitty on Saturday denied a new trial for Karmelo Anthony, the young man convicted in the murder of Austin Metcalf, according to Fox 4 Dallas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anthony, now 19, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison after a suburban Dallas jury in June rejected his claims of self-defense during <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-teen-stabbing-trial-07d85074c722e11b58aa30e109672e86\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-teen-stabbing-trial-07d85074c722e11b58aa30e109672e86\" target=\"_blank\">a confrontation<\/a> with Metcalf in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/track-stabbing-texas-bodycam-video-1c746e7e118c6a0e8fa48f5a411b1cf3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/track-stabbing-texas-bodycam-video-1c746e7e118c6a0e8fa48f5a411b1cf3\" target=\"_blank\">stadium bleachers last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anthony stabbed and killed Metcalf at a Frisco ISD track meet in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anthony\u2019s legal team argued this past week that a retrial was needed in part because the judge who presided over the murder trial enforced overly strict courtroom rules and gave an interview after the trial was over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the interview that was played as Wednesday\u2019s hearing began, the judge was asked if the jury got \u201cit right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYeah, they did,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cWhatever they say, they got it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas (KWTX\/AP) &#8211; Judge Michael Chitty on Saturday denied a new trial for Karmelo Anthony, the young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1018248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,353162,1596,347620,407551,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1018247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-austin-metcalf","tag-dallas","tag-karmelo-anthony","tag-new-trial-denied-for-karmelo-anthony","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117142452279301495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}