Ep. 1826 - INSANE: Prosecutors In Karmelo Anthony Case Hid The Most Damning Evidence

The adversarial justice system is easy to take for granted, but it's one of the most important legal concepts we have. We could not function as a civilization without it. It prevents us from turning into North Korea overnight. It keeps our courts from devolving into inquisitions and show trials where enemies of the state are railroaded while allies of the government can do whatever they want. In an adversarial justice system, prosecutors are on one side with a mandate to pursue justice and secure convictions where appropriate, the defense is on the other side with a mandate to get their client acquitted one way or another. And crucially, the two sides are not friends. They don't look out for one another. They have competing interests. They are locked in a duel, a judge mediates disputes as they arise and then after both sides pursue the evidence to the best of their ability and make the best argument possible for their side, a jury deliberates and renders a verdict. This is how every criminal trial must work in this country or else we might as well abandon the concept of criminal trials altogether. It really is that simple. Well, we're now learning that the trial of Carmelo Anthony was the black high school student who stabbed a white teenager named Austin Metcalf to death at a track meet last year. Did not even come close to following this well-established fundamental, all-important adversarial process. Instead, critical evidence against Carmelo Anthony was withheld from the jury by the prosecutors, the very people who under our adversarial system should have presented that evidence. This evidence was not withheld because of a ruling by a judge, but instead by a gentleman's agreement between the district attorney and the defense lawyers. And as you're about to see, the hidden evidence would have been overwhelmingly beneficial to the prosecution's case against Carmelo Anthony. We're talking about what wasn't effect a confession by Anthony to premeditated murder. And it was hidden by the prosecutors for reasons that simply don't add up. And we'll get into all of that. In other words, the prosecution gave Anthony's defense team a huge leg up, while also burying critical information so that the jury and the public at large couldn't see it. Now, there's no other way to say this. The fact that Anthony was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison occurred despite the efforts of the prosecution to give his defense team a major legal advantage in a case that just so happens to involve the brutal slaughter of a white teenager by a black criminal. We're learning about this new evidence because Anthony's lawyers are now seeking a new trial, absurdly. And as part of that process, the judge is now hearing arguments about all of the evidence in the case, including evidence that was not presented to the jury. Now, we'll talk more about this motion for a new trial and all the arguments, which are all very stupid the defense is making in a moment, but first, we need to discuss the hidden evidence itself. So in court yesterday, the prosecutor, Colin County Assistant District Attorney Bill Worsky admitted that the state possessed several violent text messages that Anthony sent to an ex-girlfriend. And then one of those text messages, on the morning he stabbed Austin Medcalf, he sent a picture of his knife along with the caption, "I'm low-key on the verge as in on the verge of snapping." Additionally, a prosecutor disclosed that quote, "There's a text message where he fantasizes about stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade." Now, we don't know exactly when that, especially gruesome message was sent, but it was at some point prior to Anthony's stabbing Medcalf to death. Now, it's important emphasized that these were not random edgy texts from five years ago. Anthony was telling his ex-girlfriend that he was spiraling out of control. On the exact same day, he later stabbed Medcalf in the heart. And she took those threats seriously, as he'd expect. On the morning of April 2nd, the day Anthony stabbed Medcalf, Anthony's ex-girlfriend went to an assistant principal at her school to complain that Anthony was stalking her and sending her these threatening messages following their breakup. The ex-girlfriend reported that Anthony was obsessed with fights, guns, and knives. Watch. Kamelo Anthony reportedly fantasized about knives and stabbing someone in the hours before he killed Austin Medcalf. It is a bombshell update from prosecutors in an appeal hearing today over Anthony's attempt to have his murder conviction overturned. We have to talk about what assistant district attorney for Colin County Bill Wersky had to say and what he claims happened in the hours before this track meet on the day that Austin Medcalf lost his life because he says that Kamelo Anthony's girlfriend hours before told an assistant principal at their high school that the couple had broken up and that she said she allegedly was afraid. She claimed that Carmelo Anthony was stalking her. WFA says that the ADA also claimed today in the courtroom that Anthony was allegedly obsessed with guns, fights, and knives, and prosecutors allegedly have a text message that Anthony sent where he fantasized about stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade. And he allegedly sent a text that said, quote, I'm low key on the verge. There's no question that these text messages should have been shown to the jury and to the public, obviously. They're clearly relevant to the question of whether Carmelo Anthony deliberately killed Medcalf with premeditation as opposed to self-defense. And more specifically, these text messages completely demolish any claim of self-defense. They nuke the self-defense claim from orbit. They demonstrate very explicitly that Anthony went looking to provoke a scenario where he could kill someone with his knife because he was enraged about his breakup. You know, this is not a close call. And to be clear, this is not unfair character evidence. We're not talking about a malicious attempt to malign Carmelo Anthony's character here. Introducing these text messages would not be a smear tactic where the jury is confronted with prejudicial evidence that simply makes Carmelo Anthony look like a bad guy in general. This is very different. You know, he didn't just say, I want to punch someone today. He didn't just say, I'm in a really bad mood. He explicitly said he was losing his mind and sent the picture of the knife. So if this isn't legitimate, highly important evidence in a murder trial where someone was stabbed with a knife a few hours later, then nothing is. So why didn't prosecutors introduce the text messages into evidence? Why didn't they show them to the jury? They had every right to do so. The judge did not exclude this evidence, nor would any judge ever do so. It's obviously a key piece of evidence. So what was the reason? Well, the prosecutor stated in court yesterday that he offered an agreement to the defense because before the trial began, the defense claimed to have evidence that Austin Metcalf had written racist messages in the past. And the prosecution was supposedly worried that if the defense introduced those racist messages and the prosecution introduced Carmelo Anthony's text, then the trial would become a quote, racial tinder box in the public side. So to avoid inflaming tensions, the prosecution agreed to bury the text message evidence, key evidence against Carmelo Anthony, and the defense agreed that it wouldn't bring up Austin Metcalf's allegedly racist messages. Both sides agreed, in other words, to only introduce evidence about the events that occurred inside the tent. And even though the text messages in Carmelo Anthony's case are, that is evidence related to what happened in the tent. And then they did all this in secret without telling the public, which in many ways makes this worse than what Soros prosecutors do every day, at least the Soros prosecutors disclose the fact that they want to help criminals get out of prison. There are so many problems with the reasoning behind this gentleman's agreement that it's difficult to know where to begin. First of all, the evidence against Carmelo Anthony is clearly relevant and admissible in this murder trial, it relates directly to his state of mind, his premeditation, his motive on the day of the murder. It's hard to imagine a more relevant and important piece of evidence. Now, on the other hand, the messages that Austin Metcalf supposedly wrote or spray painted onto walls, again, supposedly, had nothing to do with his death at best assuming the messages are even real, kind of a big assumption. All they suggest is that he was what, an edgy teenager. He was a teenage boy with an edgy sense of humor. Wow. But Metcalf's alleged racist messages do not demonstrate that he had any tendency to commit violence at a track meet or anywhere else, or that he was a threat to Carmelo Anthony. Now, if Austin Metcalf had texted someone on the day of the murder and said, I'm going to attack a black guy today for no reason, that would be a very relevant text message. It would be just as relevant as what Carmelo Anthony texted his ex girlfriend, but that didn't happen. So put simply the text message evidence against Carmelo Anthony would have been admissible in court. Most of the evidence against Austin Metcalf would not. Austin Metcalf, who, by the way, was not on trial. Just to be specific about what the defense lawyers are claiming about Austin Metcalf and the evidence they gathered, here's a report from the Daily Mail. Quote, Slant high school athlete, Austin Metcalf and his twin brother were allegedly caught spray painting racist graffiti, including kill all black people and the N word defense attorneys. revealed former Anthony offense turning Mike Howard, who represented Anthony as June trial, took the stand to testify that he had criminal information on both Austin Metcalf and his twin brother Hunter. A document presented in court showed the defense had photographs of a graffiti allegedly created by the twins and another boy featuring phrases including KKK, Kill All Black People, Hyle Hitler and The Endward. Police also had a body camp footage from their response to the incident, which Austin can allegedly be heard of in the officer. We did some stuff, we did some vandalism. Both twins ultimately received 12 months of probation for the incident according to Howard who also revealed that Austin had previously faced charges for assault causing bodily injury. Now, first of all, just at the outset, note this is all based on testimony from former Anthony defense attorney Mike Howard. So this is not exactly an unbiased source. And frankly, some of it seems made up. You know, they apparently have hard evidence of Metcalf admitting to doing some vandalism without any specific proof that Metcalf himself wrote those messages. But again, let's just assume it's true. The fact that a teenager writes edgy stuff is not particularly surprising. In fact, at the same hearing, according to Brianna Morello, they revealed that Camila Anthony had also written anti-white anti-Mexican and anti-black messages on his laptop. Is that a good thing? Of course not, but it's also irrelevant to this murder trial. So if the defense wants to admit Austin Metcalf's offensive social media videos or whatever, let him do it. The evidence against Camila Anthony is devastating. It turns out there are actual rules of evidence about this, which courts have to follow. They're written down. Anyone can google them. So let's do that. Let's pull up the rule of evidence. Number 404 in Texas. Quote, "Evidence of a person's character or character trait is not admissible to prove that on a particular occasion, the person acted in accordance with the character or trait in a criminal trial, a defendant may offer evidence of a victim's pertinent trait, and if the evidence is admitted, the prosecutor may offer evidence to rebut it." In other words, any evidence that Austin Metcalf had a character trait of being racist, supposedly, even assuming that's true, is not admissible to prove that on this particular occasion, Austin Metcalf acted in a racist manner. And by the way, even if he had acted in a racist manner under the tent, you still can't stab him. So this is irrelevant on like 10 different levels. And there's no pertinent trait that's revealed by graffiti either. Even if someone is a racist and likes to tag property, it doesn't belong, you know, it doesn't belong. That doesn't give anyone else a license to stab that person in the heart. So for about a dozen reasons, this whole line of reasoning comes crashing down. On the other hand, Carmelo Anthony's text messages on the day of the murder have nothing to do with any character trait. They have to do with his motive to commit the crime, as well as his intent to commit the crime and his state of mind when he committed the crime. It's an admission of what he's planning. That's very different from just character evidence. It's mind-boggling. A prosecutor would pretend otherwise. A killer who says, I'm liable to commit murder today on the day of committing murder is essentially confessing. He's not giving you background information about his character. By the way, some of the evidence that was presented yesterday about Carmelo Anthony, a Carmelo Anthony would also probably qualify as character-based evidence. For example, there was also evidence that when he was living in Baton Rouge, Anthony's parents quote, enrolled him in a special LSU program for children who struggled to control their aggression and keep their hands to themselves. It's a relevant piece of information, but it doesn't directly relate to the events that took place on the day of the murder. So you could imagine a scenario where jury wouldn't be allowed to see that particular bit of information. The text messages from the day of the murder, on the other hand, are clearly relevant. Later in the hearing, the defense dug up even more dirt against Austin Metcalf, which theoretically may have been a missable in court. This is again from the Daily Mail quote, Howard said Austin was arrested in May 2018 while he was still in elementary school after allegedly shoving a girl to the ground and injuring her shoulder badly enough to require hospitalization. Again, this is an elementary school. In December 2024, Austin allegedly told a church group that he was consumed by anger, lust, and addiction and that they had taken control of his life, the defense attorney said. He also pointed to a March 2022 incident in which Austin allegedly mocked a black student for eating a banana and filmed another student as he appeared to shove the boys head into his crotch. Another video from 2023 allegedly shows Austin cheering as a friend chased and tackled a black student with Austin heard saying, "Get over here, you black Jew." There are some other incidents as well. By the way, the thing about what he said at a church group. So allegedly, he was talking about his spiritual struggles in a church group and then what someone in the church group came and reported that to try to get someone to stab him off the hook. Like, how does that come up? And again, nothing to do with what happened. There are some other incidents as well, including quote, during 2023, 2024 school year, he received in school suspension twice, school display records from April 2022 to May 2024 revealed that he reportedly caught a teacher the B word or used profanity. He told a school official that he couldn't control it and wasn't aware that it was coming out of his mouth. Couldn't control using profanity. In 2024, I'm sure he's the first teen boy to ever do that. I mean, obviously that's of course the defense would want to bring that up. Yeah. He got stabbed to, he got stabbed to death, but did you know that he's this kid used profanity? So, you know, stabbed to death, used profanity, tomato tomato. In 2024, on at least five occasions, Austin saw a counselor regarding his anger and rage during a football game in 2021. He got banned from attending basketball games for a season after yelling profanity at a player. So they're going through with listing all the naughty things Austin Metcalf did. Basically, they just they they found everything they could possibly find. All the bad things that this teenage teen boy did in his life. Most of it just amounts to saying bad words and none of it relates to his death. So to recap, he told his church group he was angry, which by the way also shows that if that even happened, this was like he was a kid doing the right thing with his anger, going to find spiritual support and then what his church group turned around and and you know, tried to use it against him in court. I don't know. He said something mean to a teacher, although we're not sure exactly what he said. He got angry during a sporting event. He filmed some some videos several years before he was murdered. And in 2018, seven years, seven years before his death, when he was in elementary school, he shoved a girl to the ground. Again, none of these incidents prove anything. They don't demonstrate anything about what might have happened in that 10. Unlike Anthony's text, these incidents don't shed any light on motive or intent or anything. Cheering while someone else tackles a student does not demonstrate that you attack someone at a track meet or does nor does telling a church group that you're angry. And a shove that took place in elementary school for obvious reasons is not relevant in any way. Besides, if the defense brought in incidents from the past that aren't directly related to the crime itself, and if they were allowed to do that by the judge, that would also allow the prosecution to go into more biographical detail about Carmelo Anthony's past. Okay, because two can play at that game. And the details of his past are far more disturbing than anything Metcalf is accused of doing. So I'm going to read here extensively from reporting by Sarah Fields who's been covering this case and doing an excellent job of it from day one. So here's what she posted this this morning. In a, and it goes on for a while, but I want to get all this out here. In a 75 page filing, prosecutors also know that Carmelo Anthony had earlier been accused of taking his girlfriend's phone and an October 24, drafted a to-do list, instructing her how to handle quote weirdos, which included the line, say some slick like my boyfriend kill people. Text exchanges further reveal that he admitted on at least two occasions to punching girls in the face. Prosecutors located 2021 messages between Carmelo Anthony and another student discussing robbing someone for $300. Other tech show Carmelo Anthony recounting a fight and punching someone so hard he had to stop fighting. In 2023, prosecutors say Carmelo Anthony told a friend he planned to vandalize a house in Austin, writing, I just feel like it. I got a grudge. In 2021, Carmelo Anthony informed a friend he had been suspended for three days after fighting, adding they said next time I do some, I get recommended for expulsion, court paper show. In a 2023 text exchange with a friend, prosecutors have messages in which Carmelo Anthony wrote, I'm a shoot the school up tomorrow with my blick, but later followed up that that with I would never actually do that. In a 2024 thread, prosecutors state Carmelo Anthony admitted to carrying a firearm, telling a friend before a party he would have the gun in my pocket. The records also contain messages, threads in which Anthony mentions carrying a gun. After multiple suspensions for fighting while in school in Louisiana, messages between Carmelo Anthony and his girlfriend's surface after he moved to Frisco. In one exchange, she suggests he should simply sit sit sit for a while. He said, yeah, and punch people maybe run sometimes. I have to. It's like a priority for me. I like punching people. When I get mad, I see red. When I get mad, I black out. When I get mad, I can't control myself. Prosecutors also showed messages in which Carmelo Anthony admitted to getting high and drinking alcohol and even discussed selling drugs to obtain guns, this continuing along with Sarah Fields reporting. In 2024, prosecutors say Carmelo Anthony tried to assault a teacher stating, I put my hands in face and everything. Also, 2024 messages recovered by prosecutors suggest Carmelo Anthony attempted to take a weapon into a state fair in Texas, asking a friend if the state fair got metal detectors. We told the the detectors were in place. The friend replied, you got the poker. Yeah, I might have to Cemental Anthony answered. Prosecutor reported that Cemental Anthony confessed to stealing a watch and ear buds in separate Colin County burglaries and to bringing a weapon into a Frisco school campus and remarked about his girlfriend. She went in my bag to get my computer and I said no and she still went in and grabbed it and my gun and my knife and some other stuff fell out. Numerous unreleased photos and videos show Cemental Anthony holding firearms and making threats. Authorities found a note on Cemental Anthony's phone containing a list of racial tropes and slurries about blacks, whites and Hispanics. In one message, prosecutors say Cemental Anthony wrote, "I hate gay people." Prosecutors add that Cemental Anthony repeatedly threatened to murder his girlfriend in texts, including lines such as, "How many bullets you want coming out of your chest and I'm going to get you," expletive. He also threatened her with a knife and one message and told her in another, "When I stab somebody, I'm going to lick the blood off the blade." Okay. So we have a lengthy track record of Cemental Anthony committing violence, committing crimes, fantasizing about violence, threatening violence, carrying around illegal weapons, and showing a particular fascination with stabbing people and anyone on to do exactly that. And the jury heard none of this, none of it. Nothing that I just read to you was presented to the jury. Or made public. Austin Metc, and the reason, keep in mind, the reason why none of these things were presented allegedly is that, well, that would allow them to talk about Austin Metcalf's past. Well, we've heard about his past, so we heard about Cemental Anthony. There are shoes you wear because you're required to have something covering your feet, and then there are boots, and great boots can actually improve you as a person. I can't prove that scientifically, necessarily, but put on a good pair of boots and you immediately stand a little straighter. You walk with more purpose. 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Austin Metcalf's alleged sins as a teen boy are by comparison, not even close to as serious. Just one, like one, I think this kind of, this kind of summarizes the comparison. Austin Metcalf allegedly used the profanity to a teacher. Carmelo Anthony confessed to hitting a teacher, okay, like that's kind of the difference. Austin Metcalf maybe did some graffiti. Carmelo Anthony committed burglary and robbery. And all of this stuff, in the case of Austin Metcalf, much less relevant to the crime. Also, he was the victim of the crime. He was not the one on trial. He couldn't have been on trial because he was dead because Carmelo Anthony murdered him. And that's not even getting into the fact that at trial, there was overwhelming evidence that Austin Metcalf did not attack Carmelo Anthony anyway. So it doesn't, I don't care what he had in his past. I don't care if he was literally in the, in the clan, okay, I don't care if he was in the KKK. I don't care if he had the, if he had the pointy white hat in his, in his closet at home. It wouldn't make any difference because he was unarmed and he got murdered. He got stabbed in the chest. That's it. At most, he lightly put his hands on Carmelo Anthony when he refused to leave the tent where he didn't belong and Carmelo Anthony threatened everyone inside with a weapon, reaching into his bag and saying, touch me and see what happened. So there's no relevant comparison here. If the defense wants to try to make the case that Austin Metcalf had a violent character in some way, they need to find witnesses to say he was, you know, known to attack people. But they'd run into a very big problem, which is that the witnesses in the tent said he didn't attack anyone in this instance. So there's really no point. Even if you somehow prove that Austin Metcalf had a violent character. The fact is in this instance, which is what the whole trial is about, he was not the aggressor. And again, if the defense brought that up, well, here is our, here is our like Bible length, you know, volume of crimes and violence fantasies that Carmelo Anthony engaged in. And remember also that this, as always, like the story from Carmelo Anthony's parents and family has been, oh, he's a good kid, he was a good, he was a great student. He, you know, he grabbed, that's why we had to let him graduate even though he just killed somebody. He was going to go on to be an electrical engineer. Meanwhile, you see his text messages, he can't even spell, first of all, he's illiterate. He's an illiterate, violent thug, big surprise. So any good prosecutor would object the moment the defense tried to bring any of that evidence up about Austin Metcalf, evidence that I feel like I have to keep repeating, you know, you don't, you don't come up with evidence against the guy who was murdered in the first place. And actually before the trial even began, they'd file a motion to prevent any of this from being introduced into evidence. It's clearly inflammatory, it's clearly irrelevant. It's just character assassination. But Bill Wersky didn't go to the judge before the trial and study went to the defense team. And he struck a deal with them to organize a cover up so that he could avoid a quote, racial tinder box. He decided as a prosecutor that he was going to dictate the amount of information the public received about this case. It was not a strategic decision since very little, if any of this testimony about Austin Metcalf could have been admissible, it was a political decision. He said he wanted the trial to focus solely on the events that took place in the tent. So he ignored the most damning piece of evidence in this case. And to be clear about this, about this, the racial tinder box in this case was created entirely by black activists who were thrilled that a white kid was stabbed to death. They ignored every relevant fact of the case. They immediately began donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to come out of Anthony. They showed about side the courthouse and stated on camera that Austin Metcalf had it coming. They held press conferences where they attacked Austin Metcalf's father, even before he buried his son. To this day, black influencers on TikTok and Instagram are mocking the death of Austin Metcalf. So this case was a racial tinder box because a significant number of black people in this country clearly believe they have a right to murder white people. Now if any prosecutor caves in this scenario and prevents a jury from seeing relevant evidence to avoid contradicting the mob or to prevent white people from realizing the extent to which many of these black activists hate them, then the prosecutor must be fired and disbarred immediately. He has participated in an obstruction of justice. He has aligned with the defense and failed to fulfill his vital role in our adversarial system of justice. Bill Worsk needs to leave office at a minimum. It's hard to recall a more disgraceful display by a prosecutor, particularly in a high profile case like this one. What really happened here, in case it's not obvious, is that the prosecutor's determined there was a slim chance that the judge would allow the jury to see some of this evidence about Austin Metcalf. The prosecutor's thought that if a member of the jury saw that Austin Metcalf may have used the n-word at some point in his life or may have sprayed some naughty graffiti, then Thank you very much. vote to a quick Camaro Antony. In other words, because leftist view racism as the single worst possible sin, a white person can't commit, commit. There was a concern in the prosecutor's office that a leftist juror would vote to a quick Camaro Antony solely to punish Austin Metcalf for his alleged racism. In other words, the concern was that a leftist on the jury would think that because Austin Metcalf allegedly used the N word years ago, he actually deserved to be butchered and killed. This is the level of coddling that's taking place for the benefit of non-white left-wing jurors. And yes, contrary to what the media will tell you, there were indeed several non-white members of the jury in this case. Prosecutors are throwing their best evidence in the trash voluntarily in a desperate bid to prevent a member of the jury from thinking the victim might have said something racist at some point in his life. And keep in mind, this was a trial where numerous black witnesses testified against Carmelo Antony, including witnesses called by the defense. It was cleared everybody in that tent, regardless of skin color, that Anthony was a murderer. So prosecutors were worried that despite the mountain of evidence against Carmelo Antony, including testimony from black athletes and black track coaches, a juror would still vote to acquit him in order to punish Austin Metcalf's alleged use of a bad word. We cannot imagine a better indictment of multiculturalism and diversity than this. As we've discussed before, when you flood a homogenous society with different racial groups from all over the world, those groups will start looking out for each other's interests. And when that happens, it becomes very difficult to maintain equality under the law. Jury trials begin to break down to the point that prosecutors preemptively destroy evidence so they don't offend certain demographics. And that's not to defend what the prosecutors did here. I mean, even given all their concerns, there's no reason to censor their own evidence, but it does illustrate the level of extraordinary, deranged anti white sentiment that's now dominant in this country, even in a state like Texas, which is slowly being taken over by foreigners just like California before it. The thing is, when you start making backroom deals like this, they tend to blow up in your face. And that's one of the reasons prosecutors should not have done it. When you begin drafting gentleman's agreements to hide evidence, sooner or later, it will inevitably go south. And that's exactly what's happening right now with this motion for a new trial. First of all, Anthony's lawyers have already gotten the trial court judge, the trial court judge removed from the case. So he's not present at these hearings. The judge whose name is John Roach gave an interview where he suggested the jury reached the correct verdict, which they did. When asked if the verdict was the right one, the judge said something to the fact of, yes, they did because they were picked based upon the law. They listened to the facts. It happened in this courtroom and they got a verdict. So really, he was endorsing the process more than the verdict, but it was dumb for the judge to get an interview in the case anyway. So he's gone now. The new judge has has to decide whether to grant a new trial and the main issue revolves around this gentleman's agreement. Watch. Well, Chris, there was this gentleman's agreement during the trial where they both said that they agreed that they were not going to bring these character issues up, that they were going to leave them out. But then at the last minute, Bill Wertzky, according to defense attorneys, decided that he was going to cross examine Carmelo Anthony and he was going to bring up some of these incidents and cross examination. So apparently there was a big shouting match, according to testimony today, between both parties, prosecutors and defense attorneys. And now his attorneys, his new attorneys want to ask this new judge that just got appointed to give Carmelo Anthony a new trial saying that there are some serious legal issues with his first trial. And also, we're supposed to also hear testimony that Bill Wertzky says shows that there are some character issues involving Carmelo Anthony, according to him, on the day that Austin Metkep was killed, Carmelo Anthony's ex-girlfriend with an assistant principal and told that principal that she was afraid that he had been stalking her after they broke up and that he was obsessed with guns, knives and fights. And so again, Bill Wertzky says he plans to bring it up when it's his turn. Now, to clear this up, because it's all very confusing, I read reporting from Daily Mail Reporter Mary Ann Martina as well as CBS News Texas reporter, J.D. Miles, who were both in the courtroom. And here's what happened. Carmelo Anthony's defense attorney, Mike Howard, took the stand during the hearing yesterday. He was cross-examined by prosecutors. Mike Howard claims that he was 99% sure that Carmelo Anthony would take the stand in his own defense during the trial. But on the final day of trial, when Howard made it clear to prosecutors that Anthony was going to testify, he says the prosecutors became extremely upset and began shouting on the theory that any testimony from Anthony would violate the gentleman's agreement, which was to focus the trial solely on the events that took place under the tent. And the idea is that if you took the stand, Anthony would probably talk about how he's a great guy, which would open the door to questions about his text messages. And the fact that he was stalking his ex-girlfriend, etc. So prosecutors supposedly gave an ultimatum to the defense. If Anthony testified, the gentleman's agreement was over. The prosecution could introduce any evidence they wanted, including the evidence of Anthony's text messages on the day of the murder and all the other crimes that he had committed in his past. And apparently there were a lot of them. The judge said that he wasn't going to enforce the gentleman's agreement one way or another since it didn't involve the court. He simply made it clear that Anthony had the right to testify if he wanted to. The defense claims that this sudden threat, the possibility that he might get cross-examined about his text messages, left Anthony shell-shocked. And the lawyers quote, "We're not given enough time to explain everything to Camilo Anthony. What was at stake is rights and how the lawyers arrived at this decision." So the idea is that because the status of this gentleman's agreement was tied to whether or not Camilo Anthony testified, therefore the prosecution interfered with Anthony's right to testify in his own defense. They supposedly put undue pressure on Anthony, preventing him from making a fully voluntary decision. Never mind the fact that everyone knew Anthony wasn't going to testify because he's so obviously guilty in addition to being extremely dumb and unsympathetic. So there's no upside in having this stupid illiterate thug testify in his own defense. It wasn't going to happen. Now I have no idea if the defense is telling the truth about what prosecutor said or the terms of the agreement or anything like that. 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I can't forget that from the moment Austin McCaff was murdered, there was a much broader effort to hide other important facts of this case as well. For example, we were repeatedly told that the surveillance footage from the track meet didn't contain any relevant information whatsoever. The authorities didn't release the footage, but they showed it to a small number of media outlets, all of which claimed that the footage was too grainy to be useful, but that wasn't true. Here's the footage from the surveillance camera, which was released to the public only after Anthony was convicted, and you can't see what happens in the tent, except for the fact that there's clearly no mob attack going on as it was claimed. Then you can clearly see coming on Anthony at the top of the tent when he discards the knife in the bleachers before he breaks out into a full sprint, passing up dozens of adults along the way. He never asks anyone for help. Instead people are chasing after him. They're pointing him out. By the way, you'll notice there also wasn't a torrential downpour at the time of the stabbing. The rain had led up, which is why plenty of people are standing on the bleachers with no tent, and they're not getting wet. The whole excuse that Anthony had to be inside the tent because of a downpour. He had no option to run away or whatever. It was also totally made up. This footage was available on the day Austin Metcalf died. There's no reason the public could not have seen it. There was no reason for the media to assure us the footage was useless and serve no purpose. Here's our news nation, you know, talked about it to give just one example. Yeah Nicole, they allowed me to view this video under strict conditions. I couldn't record anything, I couldn't take pictures, I could take notes, but that's about it. They would play it one time and they wouldn't even rewind it or play it again even the moment in question. So, what I saw in the video was ultimately, it's from the press box across the field. On the 45 yard line, you can view a yellow tent across the field. That's where this incident happened. There's no sound on the video and it's raining. You can see about 30 to 40 people around the field. It's a track meet that morning, so they're preparing for this track meet. The incident question happens at 9.44 AM. It's really calm up until that point and then chaos ensues and you can't really make up anybody. You can't make out individuals. You can see people and colors and what they're wearing, but you can't make out identities. But again, 9.44 chaos ensues, what I did not see was any obvious physical altercation leading up to the stabbing. So, he doesn't even mention the fact that there's only one person coming to Anthony who clearly bolts from the tent and nearly leaves the stadium while everyone else is panicked and trying to save Austin Metcalfe's life. Somehow this reporter, and every other reporter who saw the footage, missed this crucial piece of information. He also failed to mention the rain, wasn't causing any issues for the people in the bleachers. It's very reminiscent of how after George Floyd's overdose, the police refused to release the body cam footage showing that Floyd was resisting arrest. And while he was, you know, thrashing around in the patrol car, Floyd repeatedly said, "I can't breathe." The footage also showed Floyd sticking fentanyl pills in his mouth. You know, authorities in Minneapolis recognized that as the footage was released immediately. It would torpedo their whole narrative, which was promised on the false claim that Derek Shovon's knee was the reason Floyd couldn't breathe, which it wasn't. And truth is, Shovon's knee did not obstruct Floyd's airway at all. He couldn't breathe because he was in the process of having a fatal overdose, owing to the lethal level of fentanyl that he had ingested. The body cam was a major problem for the narrative in Minneapolis, so the authorities buried it. And by the time the daily mail obtained the leaked footage was too late. Everyone had seen the cell phone videos, and the Lynch mom had gathered for Derek Shovon in the rest of his history. On the same line, the authorities in the school district knew that this footage from the track me, it was very problematic for Anthony's claim of self-defense. He's on tape running like a killer who wants to escape arrest. So the insisted that the tape was totally irrelevant. They allowed BLM terrorists to claim that the tape showed a mob attack against Camilo Anthony. It was also predictable and probably deliberate. Now, if there's any upside here, it's that Camilo Anthony will probably get a much longer sentence than 35 years if he does end up getting a new trial. In a new trial, jurors will be able to see his text messages with his ex-girlfriend. They'll even hear about how he admitted he was spiraling out of control and how he was stalking his ex-girlfriend, and that's top of all the other evidence in this case, which is obviously damning all by itself. Camilo Anthony has assembled a dream team of morons, including Ben Crump, of course, to secure a new trial. But the irony is that a new trial would probably end up making things even worse for him. That is, unless Ben Crump manages to seat a deranged leftist woman or a BLM activist on the next jury, should another trial take place, that's always been the gambit. Gambit, when you're a black defendant who's clearly guilty of a heinous crime, your lawyers have one strategy. Get you in front of as many juries as possible until you find at least one member of a jury who's just as psychotic and racist as your client. That's the state of the legal system when it comes to prosecuting black criminals. We've known that for some time now. What we didn't know until yesterday is that prosecutors, even the alleged conservative ones in Texas, are working directly with defense lawyers to deceive juries and the public about the evidence they've collected. Prosecutors are not simply soft on crime. They're not simply refusing to charge criminals or letting criminals out of prison early. They're also functioning in effect as defense attorneys, all in the name of racial harmony. And they're doing it without telling anybody. With prosecutors like that, who needs defense attorneys? I mean, the more you think about it, the worse it gets. It's a total betrayal. And yes, in all likelihood, once all these legal games are finished, Anthony is going to spend a very long time in prison, not nearly enough, but a long time. The end result of all these motions and hearings, it's fairly safe to say will be that Camelo Anthony loses and justice prevails. But once that happens, and Camelo Anthony is locked away in prison for good, there's another very important determination that needs to be made, which is how many prosecutors in Texas and all over the country belong in prison with him. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday of a great weekend. Godspeed. In all of my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt. Well, I'm not a crook. For more than five decades from my ran contracts, Monica Lewinsky to Russian gate, every political scandal has been measured against one, the Watergate affair. But what if Richard Nixon was telling the truth? What if Watergate isn't what it seems? What if hundreds of thousands of pages of sworn testimony, memoirs, and newly released government documents tell a different story than the one you learned in school? 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