Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - Insider Exposes Lies, Political Ties, & Racial Divides in Karmelo Anthony Self Defense Case

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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A divide amongst America. He is good for business. You got Republican Democrat, left, right, black, white. These people have enough problems. You really need a bunch of assholes stirring up those rumors. And then you got assholes like me who immediately believed it. This one, it hits a little close to home with some similarities. Some people in the comments may say this, this fella, is it qualified to speak on this topic?

I think I'm damn well qualified to speak on it. I had a self-defense claim myself. I was facing 25 years of life in prison due to my circumstances. The case was dismissed and thrown out, which is I'm sure the outcome Mr. Carmel and Anthony is hoping for, but as we'll get into this, it's not impossible, but, you know, I am a betting man and he's not looking good. He's not, he's not the favorite in Vegas to beat this case, and we'll get into why.

Okay, well, let's, so first you want to just kind of recap what happened right so this is the landscape here we've got carmella anthony 17 years old from centennial high school played football was a track star and for whatever reason everybody wants to make sure that you know he has a 4.0 GPA Austin Metcalf same 17 years old was a memorial high school football star also ran track now not that this is a huge deal but this is Texas and these are competitive rival schools. So already with 17-year-old high school football stars and both of these kids, from what I understand, were standout athletes,

you've got a competitive nature just in that, just in and of itself. Texas football is, you know, that's like church. I mean, they don't play about their football down there. If you ever seen the movie Friday Night Lights, that shit's serious. The old fucking city comes out for these things. So that's the little bit, that's who they are.

And like I said, I bring this up just to go ahead and say there's already a competitive spirit between these teams, between probably these people. I mean, even in my small town here in South Carolina, you know, there's competitive, there's competitive, you know, I guess attitudes, if you will, between rival schools. It's just, that's just the nature of the game, I guess we'll say so speak. Now, this was at David Kikendale Stadium. I hope I pronounce that right. Ferisco, Texas, so this was a track meet. Now, from what I understand, and from the best that I've been able to gather here,

this was, um, I don't even think these guys were competing in the track meet. They were just there to support their schools. And it starts to rain. So it's a pretty, pretty heavy rain coming down. It's, I read somewhere that a coach told him, hey, go get in, go get under the tent. Because he was in the bleachers. So he gets his bag and he goes under the opposing team's tent. I don't know if that was on purpose or I don't know if that was just an accident.

If it's raining like hell, you're just going to run for the first tent you see. Either way, he winds up in the opposing team's tent. So what happens there is Austin apparently approaches Carmelo. I don't know to what degree. I don't know how aggressive it was, but in all certain terms, at least from the police reports, it says he tells him he needs to get out he may have said get the fuck out he may or you know whatever I don't know how he said it but the intent was you need to get out here and he pushes him like get out so at this point this is key later on we'll talk about it a little bit later on

but I'm just kind of going through what we know at this point Carmela goes over to his bag that he has and I guess grabs a knife now I don't know of Austin knew he grabbed the knife but I guess he at least seen him go to the bag And he says, touch me again, you're going to have some problems. Or touch me again, you'll find out something along those lines. Alston comes up to him again, and Carmelo stabs him right in the heart. He ultimately winds up passing away. His brother, twin brother, I believe was there named Hunter.

He basically passed away in his arms. Now, Carmelo takes off. He ditches the knife and he runs. You know, at first glance, you think, could say guilty people don't run yada yada yada but you know i'm going to try my best throughout this whole thing to look at things from both sides if i go into opposing teams bench and i just stab their star player i'm probably going to run too because i'm thinking somebody's going to be chasing my ass so better idea is probably just not just to grab your shit and leave oh yeah yeah

man not not stabbing would be the best thing but i mean after that happened you got to think there's there could be some repercussions so i understand a little bit of a wife led right um maybe not so much dropping the knife that's another layer but you know he drops the knife and he's fled he is apprehended but when he's apprehended he immediately admits that you know hey i did this you know it wasn't it wasn't i'm not the alleged guy it was me i stabbed him and then as they're placing him in the car he goes i can claim self-defense for this right so he's asking this before he's arrested i don't think he's actually arrested and Miranda's at this point

before he's arrested he's asking the cops so right then and there's a lot of problems with that in and of itself number one I'm not promoting people to to do crime or acts like this but if you do don't talk to the cops don't see shit

just don't he's already opening himself up to you're asking if you can use self-defense and how do you know you even did what you did was in self-defense right so that's that's a big problem right there right off the rip um going forward there's an issue here with uh i think some go fund me money his family makes a uh i think it's not go fund me it's not go fund me it's like go send or something like that save

send go or something it's like a variation of go fund me they immediately put one up It, uh, it raised, I think the equivalent of $350,000, which is what they wanted. It certainly. Very quickly that. Very quickly. And then it surpassed that. She actually went and bumped it up to $500,000. So it, it, it well exceeded what they wanted.

And that was a big contingent because some people were saying, well, how are you able to, you know, commit a murder and then put a fund up to try to raise funds? And I think even senator or one of his senator, but Ted Cruz. Um, posted. He was like, so a murder, a man commits a murder and then gets $500,000 on a go fund me. Me personally, I don't think politicians need to stick their nose in on. I was just thinking, keep your mouth shut. Like nobody, like, you know, what, why say that? Like, you, there, he has, he has a, the kid, you know, guilty or innocent. You have a, a right to try and raise money to try and put out a, um, mount a defense in, for your son. Like, whether he's guilty or not. not, no matter what, you have a constitutional right. I'm allowed to raise money. I'm allowed

to pay for a defense. I'm presumed innocent. You know, that, thus far that senator doesn't know what happened. Yeah. And two, you know, when a politician like that, someone of his stature makes a statement or a tweet like that, you're already shaping a narrative because you have supporters and people that are, oh, you know, Ted Cruz thinks he did it. You know, he must And that's unfortunately, Matt, that's where, you know, you and I experienced this a little bit. A divide amongst America, unfortunately, is good for business. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

That's true. That's why we're doing this. Exactly. That's why I was going to say. That's why we're doing this. You know, you got Republican Democrat, left, right, black, white. I mean, just, you know, North, whatever, however you want to classify it, gun toting, non-gun toting. You know, everything is for division is good for content.

So everybody's going to come out with their own narrative. And that's something that you can't stop. You can't combat that. That's just going to happen. It happened in my case and my self-defense shooting. You have the general public going to come out. You can't stop that. But I do think that politicians and people of higher-in stature should probably just keep their mouth shut.

Yeah, politicians and actors. Like, I always love some actor who happened to be. in a series or two hit movies now suddenly decides he knows who should run who should be the next president's like bro come on you you you barely took acting classes like who are you you play you know you paid chabaca and and star wars like what are you doing you know you were the love interest in you know whatever like come on man like either and i mean that's both parties like these guys need to just just mind their own business i'm back a little bit and that's one thing like I didn't even get it, I don't want to get off topic, but like the, what's the lawyer down

here, the, um, the Murdox, like they had documentaries on Hulu and HBO before this guy ever went to trial. I don't even know how that was, I mean, not that I'm saying he was innocent by any means, but that's still a swaying, you know, people's thought process. But, you know, anyways, he, the kid does get locked up. His bond is a million dollars, which is pretty steep for this. now a lot of factors go into when you're getting bond in a case like this because it's different because he's not saying no i i didn't stab that kid when everybody's saying yeah you did he's saying

i stabbed him but i did it in self-defense so that's basically it's xing out that you're a and you're a danger to the community you're not being initiated into a gang um it's a one-off basically so that's something that's going to be factored into it his age is going to be factored into but he's young he's 17 like we said then not necessarily don't have a passport you know can't flee the country that with a half million dollars you might could get somewhere but you know i don't even know if that was all accumulated at the time this bomb was set so in my opinion i'm going to side with him again on this i thought that bond was pretty high how much was it again it was a million oh shit i didn't hear that yeah and you i mean and granted you don't have to get bond like you

don't have to give you bond on a murder charge but again this is a a murder charge with a different set of circumstances because of self-defense. It changes the game a little bit when it's when it's self-defense. But, you know, be that as a may, it was originally set at a million dollars, which in most cases, if you've got to come up with 10%, you know, that's 100,000. The family lives in a pretty well-to-do neighborhood. Friscoe, Texas is a pretty affluent neighborhood. Like, you're not struggling.

You're not, I don't think you're living check to check, living in that. Sometimes you can sign your house over. you know, or you put a lien on your house, that's right. And you put less down. So they may not have had to come up, but with 100,000. Maybe it was 50 or 20. Well, it didn't because it got lowered. Um, and it initially get lowered.

So, and that's, uh, one thing we can talk about. There was a judge named Angela Tucker. Um, she reduced that bond from one million to 250,000, which is, uh, was that a seven, seven 50, 750 decrease. Now, that's not exact. That's probably where, in my opinion, it should be. Uh, in my own. personal case, I had murder in possession of a weapon during a violent crime, which I'm assuming

was probably similar to what he had. My bond was 150,000. The 100,000 was the lowest they could give you for the murder charge. They couldn't go any lower than that. And then the weapons charge in my case was 50,000. So my total bond was 150,000, which I had to come up with. It wasn't a full 10 percent. It was slightly less than that. I think I had to come up with like 12, 5 to get out. So his was 250. I was going to say yours, once again, reasonable because you have kids, you're married, you own a home in the community, you're an upstanding citizen, you had been on the same job for a decade or whatever, what, five years, whatever, I don't know what it was, but. Actually, 15 at that point.

50, like, you're not going anywhere. And yours was your, and you were going to, you were saying not guilty, self-defense. You know, I don't even have a problem. People supporting him if they believe that what he did was right. I don't necessarily. necessarily subscribe to what he did his right 100% and we'll get into that but you know i see nothing wrong with backing your horse in this race and there was no problem with that people are going to pick sides not everybody's going to always agree just like the cow written house situation you had an ex number of people said he was well within his right to protect himself the other paths said no he's a cold-blooded murder needs to go away nobody's ever going to agree and people

are going to back their you know their whoever coincides with their belief system but be that as made this young man did get bond um the judge from what i understand angela tucker came under fire she actually got some some heat for lowering the bond as much as she did like he should have gotten out on bond he should have been given by in my opinion he should be given bond he has a right to mount a defense he needs to take part in that defense it's much easier if you're out and also the other thing about bond people don't realize is like he's not going anywhere you know oh he did this he's not going anywhere. He's not, he's not running. He's, he's at home with his family. He's recognizable. I promise you, this kid isn't going anywhere. And he's also on an ankle monitor.

So that's another thing that, you know, obviously if he goes outside of whatever parameters they said in most cases, it's your home, doctors, lawyers, school. I'm a student in his case. I don't know. In a case like this, they very, very seldomly does anybody run. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't have one issue with that kid getting bond. It's much easier to fight your case if you're outside than when if you're sitting in a prison cell. Um, so I don't have any issue with him getting bond. Matter of fact, I'm glad he got bombed. Uh, you know, as far as the, the dollar amount, I guess that's, you know, maybe for that part of town or whatever, that's average, but, you know, there's nothing wrong with that. But now they have a victim's advocate that's kind of the

spokesperson for the family in this situation. And, uh, you know, this gentleman has a hard time with the english dialect um you know i've listened to him butcher flat out butcher some some very common words but it is uh minister dominic alexander now this gentleman has quite the rap sheet himself he's been arrested over a half a dozen times i should you not i've seen all the bug shots he was actually convicted for uh committing bodily harm to a two-year-old and had multiple allegations of former ex-wives or spousal abuse. Now, look, this has absolutely nothing to do with Carbella Anthony.

You know, this guy's shit is his own. Yeah. But for God's sakes, if you're going to pick somebody to represent you, I mean, get somebody with a clean record for fuck's sake. I don't understand what the thought process here is. You know, there's got to be a guy out there that is better equipped to

handle this situation. Why, the lawyer's not talking, I don't know. You know, the lawyers, I didn't haven't found anything with the lawyer talking, but he's got to be better on the mic to this guy and first of all the lawyers probably saying you know lawyers typically are saying like don't say anything they're probably just not listening to the lawyer yeah probably not or this or this minister you did say minister he calls himself a minister i don't know if he actually is a minister well i'm pretty sure it's a $50 certificate so um this minister for all

you don't he may have already been a front of the family maybe they go to church they already know him he shows up I could you know we need to do this we need so he may already have them under his spell that's correct and I mean you know I don't know these people's uh stature in the community they may know each other they may be friends they may go to the same church you know I don't know how they reached out but a lot of times when you're involved in something like this especially something that's high profile people will find you if or nothing else for you know clout and representation to what they do you know people will sought seek you out hey I'll do this a pro bono, you know, they'll do

pro bono work, whatever the case may be. To advertise them, their business, what they do, it's always an interior ulterior motive. They're not doing it out to get this with their heart. Right. Now, say, maybe they are. Maybe they're just good people. I don't know when,

but maybe they're just a lawyer with a heart. I kill myself. As a lawyer with the pocketbook is what is there. So they got this guy front and center he's he's in a lot of the interviews um like i said you'll you'll know him by the the butchering of the dialect uh that he does repetitively some words are just very very difficult

for this guy to to get out um like i said you got a lengthy rap sheet bodily harm to a two year old's not a good look especially when you're representing someone fighting a murder charge it's just not the best options you know you probably should have reconsidered that because you you want from here going forward to be clean as a whistle. You don't want any blemishes. Now, they do a press conference. Now, this press conference, a lot of things take place. We've got to dissect this. So the press conference, this gentleman, like I said, he gets up and he butchers a lot of language and the mom gets up. And she's very tearful in her speech. And I can coincide with her a little because I was there to a certain degree.

She's saying, look, you know, we moved here to give our kids a better life, you know, a better life than what we had. We're outstanding members of the community, you know, because of this action, now our lives are being threatened. You know, we can't go to work. She's got a daughter, I think, said that, you know, she's scared to sleep in her own bed because of death threats. Look, you're in Texas.

I'm not saying that's not possible. Yeah. But, I mean, you can't go to work. Like, it doesn't, like, come on. like nobody's going to gun you down like stop and i mean i can see where she's nervous about it it is texas um you know so i get where she's coming from but the problem is the husband is there while she's saying all this and he's just like every so often he'll wipe her he'll wipe her hears and i'm sitting there i'm like as the main bro why aren't you talking right

Why are you, unless you're just trying to get a, the mom or the women on your side in this case, why aren't you up here taking the brunt of this thing? You know, because it was your son. Maybe he can't cry on demand. It's possible. But she finishes this whole thing. And, you know, there was allegations that they were getting money from this go fund me. They were buying exotic vehicles. They had moved into a bigger house that was a 900,000.

thousand dollar home um from all the reports that i've read through all those things seem to be false oh okay i had heard they bought went out and bought like an s a really nice SUV and they were looking at nice homes i don't know if i didn't hear that they'd moved in but i heard that they were that was like the next step well from what i understood when she did this press conference the funds that only just became available and this was actually verified from the CEO of the the company of give sin go. I think it's about a give sin go. Um, so from everything that I've seen, that was untrue. That was that was not the case. Now, however, since he's out, the editing or the wording has been edited of what the funds will now be used for. So now it's put on, you know, could be used for

private security, could be used for change of residency, you know, different things because they aren't going back to work. They need to stay home. The wording has changed so where it's not every bit of the funds is going to be for legal representation.

Right. But beforehand, as far as I can tell none of that stuff was true, they didn't go on a spending spring. And really, I mean, that doesn't take a whole lot of sense anyway.

Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, what's fucked up about that is that people were doing, that people were out there trying to spin it. Yeah.

Like they got enough. these guys these people have enough problems their family has enough problem this kid's got a major fucking some major problems like do you really need a bunch of assholes stirring up that kind of those rumors and then you got assholes like me who immediately believed it you ever read a headline and think wait that's not what i read earlier or hear a story that was covered two totally different ways and think i wonder which one's telling the truth we all know the news can be biased algorithms push stories that they think you want to see and some outlets spin stories to fit a certain agenda. It's exhausting trying to figure out what's real, what's exaggerated, and what's

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trained to believe everything we see the first time we see it. That's just that that's the impact that social media has had. And that's the downfall of society. I remember. Remember when the George Zimmerman situation happened, Spike Lee, who's a pretty prominent movie director in Hollywood, tweeted out George Zimmerman's address and said, maybe somebody should go ask him why he did what he did. It was the wrong George Zimmerman. Wow. He said a shitload of people to this guy's house. The guy was worried his house was going to get burned down. And because he didn't do his due diligence, you know, he almost got an innocent man killed.

the power of social media is dangerous when you have a big following like that. So if you if you sensationalize fictitious and fabricated information, it's dangerous to a certain degree. It's dangerous for character. This could affect them going to court. Everybody's going to, like what you said, you thought, damn, these people got this kids facing murder charges. They're buying a damn navigator or whatever the case.

I don't know what car was. But, you know, people think like that. So I'm going to jump in here and people can yell about it in the comment section, and I don't really care. But I have a Spike Lee story. Okay. It's not my Spike Lee story, okay? But I know a guy.

So I was locked up with a guy named Andrew Levinson. We called him Red Bull because he was there for running a business opportunity scam that helped dealt with Red Bull. Anyway, Andrew. Andrew had a, I want to say it was a Bentley or a Rollsworth. Let's go with a Bentley. I don't know which it wanted was. So he had a Bentley. He's a member of like a really nice country club.

He has a, he's living in a three, four million dollar house, which, and he was living in, he was living in, I want to say like Palm Beach area. Um, you know, uh, so, you know, it's Florida. So like a three or four million dollar house, I said like a nice house. So, and so he and his wife, uh, they go to, they go to dinner at the country club. He said, we're leaving. And they walk up to where the valet is and she turns to the valet and she hands him their ticket and says, it's the Bentley or it's the blue Bentley. And the guy takes a ticket and he looks at her and he goes, okay. And she said, are you going to get it?

And then Andrew hears this going on because he comes up behind her and looks and he sees Spike Lee holding the ticket for the valet ticket. And he looks at it and he's like, yeah, Spike Lee's like, I'm not the valet. And he goes, oh my God. And he reaches over and takes the thing. He's like, and I'm so sorry. And his wife's like, she's like, why aren't you going to get it? He's like, and she's like, what? And he goes, he's like, yeah, I'm not the valet.

He's like, that's Spike Lee. And she goes, who's Spike Lee? And he goes, he's a director. He's like a famous director. And he's like, I'm so sorry. And Spike Lee goes, he says, listen, not a big deal. He said, I totally get it. And he was like, he said, you know, he gives that the valet comes running up, gives it to valet.

He's like, look, and he was in my wife's defense. He had a jacket that was similar to the valet. You know, he tries to. He said, bro, funniest fucking things. He's like, his wife was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. She's like apologizing. And I thought that was funny. Because he said, I said he wasn't offended.

He said, no, he started laughing. He just shook his head. Like, don't worry. No problem. Anyway. Those are the kind of things, though, that you have to watch out for. The spreading of misinformation, you know, with the way Photoshop and shit is nowadays. And hell, the editing.

We can edit, we can edit a podcast like me and you were talking to Donald Trump. And it'll look like we're just going back and forth on a podcast. I mean, oh, absolutely. It's crazy. So you really got to take anything you see nowadays. of the grain of salt. And to, to pick apart a little bit about what she was talking about with, you know, when something like this happens and the media attention, there's nothing you can do about that. It's not nothing that you can brush up under the rug. Listen, when I got

out of jail, so, you know, my situation happened on a Sunday, early Sunday morning. That whole day there was news vans all up and down my block, Monday, Tuesday. I get locked up or they tell me I'm going to jail on a Wednesday. By this. Then the bands had started to disappear and not literally be across the street. I get locked up on a Wednesday. I surrender on Sunday. I surrender on Sunday. And I get released on Tuesday.

When I got released, when I got back home, there were more out in front of my house. But to cover when I got it. That's nothing you're going to be able to avoid because that's, you know, especially if this is in a town where something like this is in common, they're going to job all over. It's the biggest story to go. Now, you know, give it a week. Nobody's going to talk about it very much anymore. It's going to be on to the next.

But it's still going to affect if you got kids in school, it's going to, now, this story's different. Nobody, this one will be in there for more than a week. But I'm saying, in an average something that isn't a media spectacle like this, you know, you give it a week. It's on to the next story. Let's go back to the press conference because I understand the press conference was eventful. Yeah.

So that was the part of the press conference with. Carmelo Anthony's family. Now, before this happened, uh, and I don't know his name right off the top of my head, but Austin Metcalf's father shows up to this press conference. And so I don't know if this was in like some sort of bingo or I say bingo all, but you know, auditorium or whatever, wherever the, this was. And he shows up.

Obviously, you know, this, this white guy walking in here, I'm assuming there weren't very many white people in this, you know, gathering. And they know who he is. He's, he's in, he's been in the. media, which he's publicly also said that he forgives Carmelhampton, and he doesn't want this thing to be made into a race issue. But he goes in there, and on the surface, you would be thinking he's going there to start some shit. There's no other reason why you go into the gathering of the people, the family of the, you know, the parents of the kid that murdered your son. You're going

there to start some shit. And he goes there and they're asking him to leave and he's like, I'm not leaving. And eventually he's escorted out by, I guess that was whatever, security they had. And what that did was really kind of paint a picture of the situation that happened with his son. He went into an auditorium where he was not wanted, where he was not invited. He was asked to leave. He said no. But yet at the end result was he did leave. He was removed and he's still alive. He didn't stab anybody. Nobody died. It didn't resort to violence. And it was the point to prove this is how a situation like this should happen. It doesn't need to come to this. So I thought that was pretty, on the surface, when I first heard it, I'm like, oh, this guy was

looking to start the shit. But then it goes, you know, he just blows. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus, IKEA has hundreds of design ideas and affordable options to complement any budget. After all, you're in your small space era. It's time to own it. Shop now at IKEA.ca. There are a whole case wide open because he goes there uninvited.

He goes there knowing he's not wrong side of the tracks, wrong tent, whatever you want to classify it as. He's asked to leave. He doesn't want to leave, but eventually does. And he doesn't stab anybody. And he's like, this is how disagreements are. supposed to be handled right which is I think it was pretty powerful so now that's kind of where we're at that's the most recent thing so now where we're at now is he's going to it's basically going to go to a grand jury the pre-indictment phase so a grand jury is going to hear and they're

going to choose whether to indict him now there's a saying that's really old and I'm sure you've probably heard it they can indict a ham sandwich I didn't even know I got indicted it was just so common that the lawyer told me I was going to get indicted and you know I asked him I was like am I even indicted yet and he's like oh yeah that happened like six months ago and I'm just he's like everybody's gets indicted very right to the grand jury not indict because what people don't know is when you go in front of a grand jury it's just the people that want to put you in prison is what the grand jury hears they don't hear your lawyer yeah no it's just the prosecutor walks up and he says this is what happened and he can shape it however he wants to shape it. Yeah, your lawyer is not even involved in it. You're not there. Your lawyer's not there. It's not like you can say, that's not how it would happen.

You're not even a part of it, which is really a fucked up scenario. I don't really know how that's a thing and why it's been going on for so long, but that's how it is. So he's more than likely going to get indicted. Now what's going to happen is he's going to get probably offered a plea deal or he's going to go to trial. Now, they're hanging their hat on. defense. So this is where this thing is going to get interesting. If they don't accept a plea deal

and they're going to trial, depending on what kind of plea deal they offer him, you know, those are things that you got to think about. Because if they offer you, man, if they plead it down to manslaughter into five years, you know, to get to that point, it'll probably be two years. You think manslaughter's five years? I'm just saying, five to seven. I've known people to get seven for manslaughter. Wow, I always think of manslaughter is around 10 to 15, but that's, I'm in Florida. So I don't know what it is in South Carolina. Yeah, I mean, it varies state to state. Texas from what I understand is fairly lenient, but so is Florida, isn't it?

Florida's horrible. They give out stiff sentences. You do 85%. The guards beat your ass. There's no air conditioning, which is the worst part for me. I'll put it with a lot, but you have cockroaches and air conditioning. No air conditioning. No, I can't do it. I won't. I won't do it.

You see, slutted, that's that. I won't. I won't. I won't do it. I'm telling on everybody. You know me so well. So let's unpack the actual incident here from a lawyer's perspective, shall we? One thing I got to ask is, where the hell of the coaches and the parents that distract me? I know. I wondered that. like how close in my mind you know it's so funny you tend to formulate a scenario in your mind when you hear things yeah you shoot a movie yes exactly i have um i have a a scenario in my mind which is there's people around but nobody's even close and it's just um it's just carmello

sitting underneath the awning, you know, and sitting. He's sitting there. His book bag is on the chair next to him, little folding chairs underneath this little kind of awning thing that, the little tent, you know, the little tent stand that they put up. And the two brothers walk up and say, hey, you know, hey, bro, this is for whatever, you know, King High School or, you know, whatever. You know, this is for Cougar High School or whatever it is, you know, Amelia Earhart High School, whatever. So, you know, this is for such and such high school. And he sits there and, you know, and he doesn't really say anything. And they're like, yo, bro, you got to get out of here.

And he stands up and says, what are you going to do about it? And next thing you know, the kid, you know, Austin pushes him. And then he says, get out of here. He says, he turns around, goes to grabs his bag, reaches his hand in his bag and says, you fucking, you know, you touch me again. You're going to fucking find out, motherfucker. And he turns around. And as he turns around, and he goes to push him again.

the kid stabs him. Kid drops down. He immediately takes off running. His brother's standing there with Austin the whole time, heard the whole thing. Carmelo runs off, ditches the knife, eventually gets picked up. Nobody's really around that sees anything.

You know, maybe the brother screams, people come running over. And in my mind, that's kind of the way I see it. The whole thing, what's so funny about that is when all of this comes, out in the jury, you know, in front of a jury, it may be, there were hundreds of people around. There were 14 people sitting there. He was just standing by himself next to the thing. He walked up and, you know, he may have been the aggressor. You know, so Carmelo may have been

the aggressor or Austin may have been the aggressor. Maybe he's sitting there humbly by himself and Austin comes up and immediately starts an argument or a fight, you know, like it will shift as you get the information. And as of right now, even in my scenario, which still says, hey, Austin is the aggressor, you know, I still see Carmelo as being wrong for all the reasons that we're going to go over. Yeah. But then again, I also in this, even in my scenario, you know, I still don't see, like I still see, I still kind of see manslaughter. And I still don't see, you know, I see this, I see 15 years, 20 years. I don't see, only because he's so young and he's just a stupid kid and you're 17, you know, kids are stupid at 17.

You're bringing a knife. You're just a, and you're just a fucking idiot. But, and yeah, somebody died. So that's, that's, but I just, you know, my fear and my fear is here's what's what's going to happen while we're on on the subject that I brought up. Um, my fear is that his family is going to turn it into a black on white, um, or a white on black or a, you know, black and white issue. I think that's kind of already been done. Well, yeah, but I mean, you doing in the press and then going in front of the court, you know, is two different things. So I think they're going to do that in the courtroom.

They're going to throw statistics out. They're going to talk about bullying. They're going to talk about how. he felt, you know, he was intimidated. They're going to do all of these things. And it's going to, they're going to push that agenda. And it's going to unravel in a courtroom in Texas. And this kid's going to get 30 years.

Yeah. Do you see what I'm saying? Like he's that, they're going to go with like, yeah, we this, we the self-defense and this and that. And the problem is the prosecution is going to come in and dismantle all of that rhetoric. And he is. is, you know, he is factually guilty, and he's going to end up. And you could have pled it down to get 15, 10 or 15 for manslaughter. Instead, we went to trial.

We got you for murder. You're getting 30 years. And that's, you know, that's my fear is that they think, oh, we can walk away. I don't see you walking away. No matter what the scenario is, I think in the end. He brought a knife. He pulled a knife. He stabbed someone. I'm not saying it was premeditated, but you shouldn't have brought the knife. You could have walked away.

Here's where lawyers are really going to come into play because you can't argue premeditation. And we'll just kind of hop into why these things are going to be prevalent and how lawyers are going to look into it. And I'll just piggyback with this last thing. I think at the very least the METCabs have a suit against that school for not having enough people around to stop this year. Because you're telling me nobody was around. Yeah, security or nothing. And also, just to add to your point, you're going to find out more stuff. They have interview more people.

Right now, we literally have one side of the story on record, police record. Before it goes to trial, everybody will get the, or his side will get the discovery, which would be everything, any video footage. I find it hard. Nobody had a fucking camera going when all this is going on. If they did, they've probably seized it. They're not letting it get out. they've got a video i'm sorry to interrupt you but i don't know it was i heard there was but i don't know

for sure that there is okay and and they're very well may be and that's what i'm saying like a lot of people don't understand like how corporate proceedings work so when you're when you're going to trial and you're facing the state and they're trying to put you away there's a point in what's called disclosure they have to give you every third discovery they have to give you everything they're going to be using in court essentially a lawyer won't be going in with blindsided They're going to see if they have all this information. As to how they use it, how they spend it, that's different, but you know what they have. So you'll know if they got a video of you coming in and you pushing the Metcab kid,

which is going to totally fuck your narrative. They'll know that. And they'll say, you know, we got to reconvene. We got to re-do this. So all those things will come out if this goes to trial. The one thing here is this whole thing started. Remember, he comes up and he pushes Carmelo and says, get out here, get the fuck out our tent. whatever. Carmelo then goes to his bag and goes in for a knife, which some people

have even said it wasn't a knife. It was a cleat sharpener. It doesn't matter if it was a fucking banana. Yeah. When he goes to that bag, he's fucked. My opinion, when he goes to that bag, it's done. Because self-defense, if you're not in your home where you, you don't have, you have the duty to retreat a situation if you can. So if I come up and I push you Matt we're out and we're at we're at that golf place we went and play but button I push you and I say get the fuck out of here and you you have the ability to walk off you have that duty to retreat and in this case he didn't retreat he went into his bag he got a weapon that he probably wasn't supposed to have on those school grounds I'm betting I don't know

you can get into blade length and all shit like that but you know whatever he makes the decision to go to that bag, open that bag, get that knife, then turn around and threaten him. And I think that is called, uh, there's a name for it. I don't have it here. I don't know. It's a, it's a name for it where basically you initiate the confrontation at that point, because he could have left and that would have been the end of it. Both these kids would still be alive.

But when he baits him, touch me again, you'll find out. And obviously this Austin kid went to do it. Then he stabs him in the heart. Those split few seconds is what this case is going to hinge on. He didn't retreat. He went to a bag, knowing he had a weapon in that bag, went in, got the weapon, then turned around and baited him into coming back again, and then he stabbed him. That is what this case is going to hinge on.

They're talking about, you know, Carmilla's made Facebook posts with guns and money and whatever. So what? so what name me a 17 year old that ain't posed with guns none of that shit matters you can use that to try to discredit his character if you want to but i mean you can probably pull the shit with the other kid it's all gonna boil down to that that is what this entire case will hinge on is him going to that bag going into that but you've got all that time that even in and of itself can be considered premeditation because you knew what was in that bag now had he had the knife on him and he comes up and pushes him and says get to fuck out it and he stabs him that's a little different a little different but even then what's what's you can say said it was an it was a gut response i was scared i was like pulled out my knife and i just thought was poking like it was you could you have that it happened so fast and i was scared and but if you had but you're saying you had a you had the opportunity to walk over get the bag open the bag pull the knife turn around like there's too many steps there illegal provocation was the word I was trying to find earlier. It's where you bait someone to basically, you know, initiate an attack because in a self-defense claim, you can't be the aggressor and then claim self-defense.

Like, I can't come and, you know, to you and be an aggressor and then we get into a fight and you start kicking my ass and then pull out a gun and shoot you and say, oh, well, you know, I was in fear from my life. No, I started it. So I lose the ability to claim self-defense. Right. that's the biggest thing, I think, that he's going to have a problem with.

And then the next thing is, you know, when you resort to self-defense, you have to prove that you were in imminent danger, a bodily harm or death. So what did this Austin kid do? He walks up and he says, get the fuck out of our tent. He didn't say, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to stab you, I'm going to shoot you. He says, get the fuck out of our tent. So you can't come back from a threat and a push with deadly force. That's not going to fly.

Right. At least as, you know, the one-on-one interaction between the two. You have to match what's going on here. You know, you can't immediately come back with that. So that's going to be something that these, you know, attorneys for the Metcalfe or the state attorneys are going to use to blow holes in a self-defense case. And those two things right there, I think, are really going to be what's thinking. some now depending on the caliber of lawyer that he's got what they're going to have to do is flip

this narrative they're going to have to say and this kid by all means in the pictures he's not a small kid like he looks like you got it if he needed to throw down he could probably handle himself he's a good football player he runs track he's definitely in good physical condition so he looks like somebody that can handle himself if need be um but you know maybe he's not a violent guy i don't know the problem here is his lawyers is going to have to flip this entire script so what they're going to do is they're going to say okay you know this this kid this black kid was under this tent i don't know the ratio of white to blacks maybe it was a bunch of white kids he's around a bunch of white kids one of the biggest ones comes up to him and pushes them

you know he don't have time to think about it he he thinks he's got to get a weapon to protect himself and they're going to start interviewing johnny uh whatever the fuck over here on the corner hey were you there yeah i was there what were you doing i was just watching well you know where was your hands i don't remember well it was raining did you have on a jacket yeah i had on a jacket did you have your hands in your jacket yeah i probably did no further questions because that he said hey this guy seen you know two guys with a hand in the jackets he didn't know if they had a weapon that's where this thing is going to get real tricky and real sticky is how are they going to present this to the jury to get him off because they're already working

behind the eight ball because he started talking you know he said can this be considered self-defense and see that's another thing it's called consciousness of guilt so that's behavior following an incident that can indicate guilt right so running yeah running hiding a knife growing the weapon and then not even knowing if what you did is self-defense if i'm that kid and those cops pick me up bro i had to bro he come at me you know his brother was there he had two other big you know gigantic fucking offensive lineman behind him i had to do it i was scared for my life i thought they were going to kill me that's not what he says he says this can be considered self-defense right what i did can that be considered self-defense you're asking the cops

if what you did with self-defense which means you don't even know and again i'm saying all this a guy that went through a similar situation and b it's a lot easier to monday back monday morning quarterback something when you know it's after the fact and i and i acknowledge that but you know we have to do it because it's important for people to know these things and that's where he's going to get into trouble because you don't ask if it's self-defense you fucking stand on that you stand on business and you'd say yeah it's self-defense he come at me but even that's going to be hard because he what did he do when he come at you what did he say he said get the fuck out of our 10 that's it that's all he said right now that's what their lawyers is going to say he said get out of

their tent was that worth taking this man's life but what did did he say he was going to kill you well no did he say he was going to stab you no did they threaten to him and his brothers threatened to to stomp you out or no he said get out of your tent yeah this can be a was it was it their tent yeah was there tent right was it your tent no it wasn't my tent why do you didn't you go to another tent? Why didn't you be? And I have a question. Has, has, I had heard once again, who knows what you hear in social media, right? I had heard that Carmelo had an issue where he'd brought a knife to school in the past. Is that true? I have heard that. I cannot confirm that that happened. But I did hear that. Now, they interviewed a girl, which is, I don't know whether she thought she was helping him or not. kid uh but she she's interviewing the news is interviewing her and it's on tictox if you find it and they're saying what happened is she's like well you know i've never thought he would stab somebody you know he's been in a lot of fights and stuff like that but i never thought

he would stab somebody so you're not exactly helping the man maybe they were maybe they're exes or something who knows but again you're always going to be able to take past shit so far like they're 17 year old kids they get in fights it doesn't mean they're They're fucking hoodlums. Yeah. I mean, I got all kinds of people in my school would have gotten fights and some of them are lawyers and,

you know, doctors and all kind of stuff. Shit happens when you're 17, you're in school and you're Texas and you're competitive and you're in a sport that demands a certain level of masculinity. They're not playing fucking croquet and miniature golf over here. They're playing football. They're knocking blocks off.

You know, there's a certain aura and masculinity that comes with this that both of them had apparently. And, you know, it's unfortunate that it's going to be needled and nitpicked to, in December of last year he posted a picture with a gun. He was looking for trouble. That's this fucking months ago, bro. None of that. It's no matter.

And unfortunately for this kid, I think his self-defense claim is not going to work out. And what you said is if he doesn't take that plea deal and he goes and it doesn't work out in his face. then he's going to be stuck with whatever the judge gives him, which could be, like you said, 20, 25, 30, you know, it could be life. I mean, he is 17, but, you know, they'll probably try him as an adult because by the time this gets to court, he'll be 18. I don't know how that's, you know, significantly looked at with the, with the time difference. And, you know, I've thought long and hard about this because the situation is

similar in some ways, but it's very different because I said, I know people in the comments are going to say, what's, Wade talking about, you know, a guy hit him and, you know, that guy wasn't armed and way shot him, look, mine was different. One, I was in my house. All right. You don't have the duty to retreat if you're in your house. Two, this guy threatened to kill me. He didn't say, I'm going to whip your ass or I'm going to knock you out. He said, I'm going to fucking kill you. And then he put his hands on me. And then he hit me. And then when he did let go, I'm literally, my back is literally against the wall, so to

speak. I'm actually in a corner. I can't retreat even if I wanted to to top off the fact I just had back surgery a few days before this. I own a weapon that's not illegal. It's a certified weapon. I have my CWP license. And at that point, I had no other choice but to use that weapon. And with the castle law, you can use up and two deadly force if your life is being threatened, which of my case it was. So yes, the guy didn't have a gun, but I didn't agree to a fucking fist fight with this guy. Like I said, I'm just out of back surgery. So I didn't say, hey, come on, motherfucker. Let's scrap up.

Let's go. You know, toe to toe. I wouldn't have done that because I couldn't do that. So I didn't tell him to make that choice. He did it. And that's going to be the difference. I can hear these assholes in the comments. It's not even the same fucking thing. It's nowhere near the same thing. This guy was not in his house.

You know, the guy didn't threaten to kill him. You know, and he's got a weapon that's illegal to have where he had it at. it's way different and you know the end of the day you know do we know that it was illegal or it was just you he shouldn't have had it there or it was like we don't know that it's illegal do we know it might not be illegal because i don't know the exact blade link but i don't know their rules either man i wouldn't

think you're supposed to have a weapon of any kind out of track me no i i agree but you know there's there's a difference between policy or you know it could be you know just brains and something that is, hey, that's, that's a, that's a charge. We don't know what it is. But what we do know is you, you had an opportunity, you had it with you, you had an opportunity to retrieve it, which means you also had an opportunity to walk away. Right. And in those times, what a jury is going to do is there, even if this is not your thought process, they're going to make, they're going to paint a picture to the jury. And they're going to say, this guy knew,

that if he went over to that bag, that he can entice Mr. Metcalf to come at him and he stabbed him on purpose. That's what they're going to do. They're going to paint you the worst way they can do it. Oh, yeah. They're going to say stuff about you that you're just going to be like, like they can take a normal everyday thing that nobody would think much of and make it sound so ominous and so horrific that you're like,

what are you talking about? I was checking the mail. And by the time they get done. saying it you're it's going to be like it's going to be he was staking out this and he was this he was intimidating he came out every day and intimidated his neighbors and he oh she got the mail oh he was playing with my dog my dog had to feed you know he had a bitch oh he had a vicious chihuahua that terrorized that neighborhood and bit children in the neighborhood you're like what he's awesome about they love that dog so yeah yeah they'll turn it

into it'll be horrific like when by the time they get done with this kit with Carmelo he he's going to be like this I can't believe how they're they'll twist anything even if it's innocent they're going to twist it and you're going to be a monster and you're going to end up

with fucking 30 years or worse if they're this black and white issue I'll bring up something Joey Merino said that was that was hilarious and I know this don't really compare in the situation but he was talking about how they were talking about him in courtroom day and he's like

this fucking guy was so convincing by the time he got done talking he actually had me believing that i really did but they were accusing me to do it now whether he did or not's another story but the way he said it was funny he's actually kind of funny on something but he's telling the truth because i remember when i was in there to get bond obviously they're not they're not one to let this man is a he's a danger to the community he's committed this horrible act in a neighborhood with children where they're out every day and he could do it again and i mean just all these things and you know he he lured this man here i'm like lured him this fucking guy reached out to me i wasn't saying lure shit and he's like he lured him here with this plan of i mean that's their

job i understand what they're doing but i mean i'm sitting and you can't say anything and i'm sitting there looking like what the fuck is this guy talking about i look at my lawyer i was like is he serious and he's like shh yeah oh they don't say anything to him yeah yeah I got this yeah yeah yeah we're good this proceeding will be over in a minute

I'll be able to go to lunch and you're going right back to the fucking holding cell yeah that's exactly what happened and in my case the lady didn't even give she didn't even say buying granted bond and I'll make my decision let you know and bang the gavel and I'm cuffed up by look to him I said what the hell does that mean

he said I guess that means you let us know and they're you know carrying me off to the next room and I asked the guy. I'm like, what does that mean, bro? He's the Baylor or bailiff or whatever is uncuffing me. He's like, ah, you'll probably get a decision in a week or two. And I'm like, a week or two. Like, I'm not, I'm not cut out for a week or two in there. I just 24 hours and I'm, you know, I'm ready to go. This is not my idea of a five-star hotel by any means. But those are the kind of things that they're going to do to that kid. They're going to paint him in the worst way. Now, his legal defense is going to go the exact opposite,

just like mine did. You know, it's like, hey, look, he's a fill of the community. He's for the same company for 15 years he's got a daughter he's got a son he's got a wife you know his wife works for here his his daughter goes here they're going to paint it the exact opposite and it's just like a documentary when you watch a documentary the documentary is going to favor whoever finance the documentary right you know if you watch the one the staircase that was put on by john peterson right i think that was his name so it's going to favor it's going to show him in a better like somebody that was financed of his wife, you know, people that think he's guilty. You're going to get the narrative from whoever financed the project.

And that's what both of them were going to do. And I think at the end of the day, this kid would be wise to contemplate a plea deal. I mean, in his mind and his family's mind, they can't imagine being without him for the next 10 or 15 years. And he can't imagine going to prison for 10 or 15 years. So in their mind, they're thinking, no, no, no. We have to go to trial and we'll go to trial and win. That's where you're making the mistake. Going to trial and winning when, honestly, you are at some, you're guilty of something.

Like, this is not, this is not self-defense. You're guilty of something. You need to try and get yourself in a position to accept the plea of the lowest charge with the lowest amount of time. as opposed to thinking that you didn't do anything wrong. It's hard for people to accept that they did something wrong because you can justify it to yourself. Right. Oh, yeah, you can. And at least in that position, you can somewhat control the amount of time you're going to be gone. And my lawyer told me the same thing.

He said, look, they're probably going to offer you a plea deal. In my case, it was a little different because so much time had passed due to COVID. He said, you know, they'll probably offer you, you know, something pled down to time served. that way it guarantees you don't go to prison but you plead guilty and you know they never did they just ultimately dismissed it but had they did that it would have been something I'd had to think about because if I'd have said fuck you I'm standing on I didn't do it and we go to trial I'm never coming out or at least not no time soon and so those are just things that you know most people would would shit their pants to think about but unfortunately this is something

this kid's got to got to put in perspective and the sad thing about it is two lives have been ruined both of these kids seemingly were good kids made good grades standout athletes you know probably cat i don't know for sure if they were captains but probably captains of the football team you know and now both one's gone you know one's dead he's never coming home the other one's probably going to do some jail time so his his athletic career is over probably a lot of his life is going to be you know predetermined by this outcome it's going to follow him everywhere he goes so in all intents and purposes his life is pretty fucked um you know going forward and

unless he's able to spin it in some kind of different narrative which maybe he will it's it's sad because both lives are ruined because of this act where it was very much avoidable because you you don't want to look like a bitch when the guy tells you to get out of our tent but yet now you went and stabbed him in the heart yeah but i don't want to do 10 or 15 years in prison either right i'll definitely you can call me a bitch let me be out bitch me up like a motherfucker as it as a as opposed to having to face a fucking potential 30-year prison sentence if you go to trial. And here's the thing, too, listen, like, I know what you're saying, how you've kind of broken it down.

And I've watched some videos on lawyers and that Officer Tatum, Officer Tatum breaks it down. He was a former police officer. These guys break it down. And I understand, but the person, the people that will really probably get a sense of what really happen and see all of the evidence is obviously the jury. Yeah. You know, and the jury's going to be, they're going to paint Carmelo as the prosecution will paint him as a monster. And the, sorry, and his defense team will paint him as being. this poor kid that has been bullied and intimidated his whole life by these white kids and

these two white kids came up and they said this and they said that. And if it's just his word and he takes the stand and he cries a lot, it's his word against the brother's word, in the end, legally, I still think he gets a lot of fucking, I think they get him for murder as opposed to manslaughter and he's getting 25 or 30 years at least. um if they try and do that like i said they try and do the whole black and white thing like god i think that's going to be the biggest fucking mistake because i think they're going to give a fuck in texas yeah that's the problem and that's the only way they can't really that's the only thing they can try to do is spin this whole narrative of a of a black and white thing but you

take everything that he's done all the all the opportunities that he had to retreat the fact that he took the knife there to begin with the fact that he went to the wrong tent where he knew it or not because as soon as you go in there, you're going to recognize those team's fucking colors aren't yours. So you sure, oh shit, Hong tent, let me get the fuck out of here. You know, you've got all sorts of opportunities to get out of this situation.

And then you put that kid's brother on the stand and you have him detail that his twin brother, his best friend, somebody that he, when he looks in the mirror, he sees died in his arms because this kid stabbed him

after his big brother pushed him and told him to get out of the tent it's not good bro yeah well you know the other thing is that press conference it worries me that they're unwilling at this point his family him so far it it appears to be that there there's no acceptance of any responsibility at all on their part it's it's completely my poor son, poor, poor us. And it's like, wow, bro. Like, that's not going to go over well. And in social media maybe, but when it comes down to a courtroom, vastly different.

Like, you know, followers ain't shit to those 12 people on a jury. No, no. You know, it makes me think about, it's kind of like, like, look, there's actual innocent and there's factual innocence. You know what I mean? And O.J. Simpson was factually innocent. That man butchered those two people. Okay.

You know, it's not. It says different, pal. I know Chris, I get it. I hear you, Chris. I want to believe you. No one does. But, but, yeah, it's just, it's just, I feel like Chris, this is a case.

This is a case for Chris Todd. Chris Todd, I think, could jump in his vehicle right now, drive to Texas from L.A., where he lives in his basement. He could drive from his basement apartment to Texas. He could solve this whole thing over the weekend, write a book, and put it out. I think within a month, we'll know way before what's happening. I'd be interested in the book part of it for sure. But, uh, yeah, it's not your, here, you're there. Yeah.

Matt, in your opinion, you, you've been through the legal system. Uh, you've, you know, been through this. I didn't necessarily finish that process. It started, it stalled, and then it was dismissed. So what is he looking at before this thing goes to court? If he decides to forego any sort of plea deal, what is he looking at before this thing goes to trial? Two years from now, you think?

Yeah. I mean, it depends on if they try and do, I don't know if there is a fast track system in Texas. I would say you could drag it out for a year to 18 months. Or maybe you could, I don't know, I don't know Texas. So they could drag it out two years, probably. You got to try to drag it out two years. And I find that kid's defense, I'm trying, I don't know the exact verbiage for it, but there's a motion you can make to a change of venue.

I try and see that fucking thing out of Texas. or at least out of that town because it's state you're not getting it out of Texas you might get it out of town you might get it out of it yeah yeah you can't get out of so you might maybe I mean maybe it's worth getting that

look at this point it's so big the odds of you getting it in front of 12 people that haven't heard about it I'm in Tampa you're in South you're in well you're in South Carolina but where in South Carolina Charleston

you're in Charleston South Carolina I'm in Tampa Florida you called me up and mentioned it I was like oh yeah Yeah, you know, I've been watching. I've been, everybody knows about this at this point. Everybody.

Yeah, the change of in your, man. I mean, you might eliminate the risk of getting someone that's really connected to the victim. You might, you might eliminate that. But still, you're probably not going to get away from people that know it. And that's the thing, too, like jury selection, like this thing is going to be split, divided 50-50. If his, if his defense team puts any white person alive, as they're six. Each time you get six, right? Yeah. Um, I think each gets six. No, no, no. I mean, you're, you're, it's not that, well, I mean, so you have so many that you can kick off. Right.

You could challenge. Um, it's really just that you're both basically picking the jury. Yeah. But I thought you, I thought the defense got six in the prosecution. You get like strikes. So let's say the, I can say, we have no problem with this jury. with this jury member and the prosecution might come and say strike you only have so many strikes they go no strike we don't like them oh i'm striking every white guy there is well i understand but you get to a point with if you have six strikes can't do any more right then guess what i'm picking the jury you see i'm saying like if you strike the first they they line up six white guys in a row and the and the um defense uses all their strikes then the prosecution's like i'm picking a jury like you know, they're getting the next six guys or the next 12, really, because you've got that's how that process works. Now, they can argue, they can, they can still have a conversation like, do you feel this?

How do you feel about this? And the judge may say, I'm going to, I'm not okay. I'm not okay with this jury. Why? Well, because this guy, or this juror, this guy works with, you know, with Austin's father. Right. You see what I'm saying? Like, I'm sorry.

Or this guy said he used to be a member of the KKK, but he's all better now. Like, I don't feel good about that. You see them saying? Yeah. And that's what they do. They tried to drag both of the parents to the, but there was reports that Austin's father was arrested for sexual assault or the minor, which that turned out to be false. There's reports about Carmelo's dad being having a criminal record. Look, who gives a shit?

None of that has anything to do with this. Both of those kids' parents can be fucking convicted felons to the hill. It doesn't have anything to do about what happened under that tent. Yeah. All that shit's just ridiculous. The social media stuff's bullshit. What's funny is, although you and I are talking about it, I feel like, like, if you and I sat here and just drilled down on Carmelo, right? Or we sat here and talked about what a horrific individual Austin was and this and used, came up with all this stuff.

This video gets half a million views. Right. But because we're being level headed, we'll be like. lucky to make $100,000. But at least it's, we've made a video that is neutral. It's just like, this is the facts. This is the way, based on our opinion, this is the facts. This is how it works out.

It's too bad that people will try this whole thing. But in the end, the people that are going to make the decision is going to be that jury. And even if, and even worse, the jury will make the decision. The judge will determine if he's, right, the sentence. Now, I knew a guy one time, by the way, I was locked up with, oh, this guy has such a, such a horrific story. So he owned a body shop, and he's, he's Mexican and he lives in California. I want to say, is California or Texas? It might have been Texas.

He lived in one of those states that borders Mexico. He's like, I'm Mexican, he's like, but I don't speak Spanish, you know? He owned a body shop. He pulls up in his Corvette one day. He says, I pull up in my Corvette. I pull up next to a truck with, there's two or three Mexicans in it. He's like a 7-Eleven. A convenience store.

Anyway, pulls up. He said, I go in, I get something to eat, whatever. I come back out. And he's with his girlfriend, by the way. And with my girlfriend, he said, I came out. And as he's getting into his car, one of the Mexicans says something in Spanish. And he's like, I'm, I'm, you know, they talk to him. He opens the doors, going to get in.

They do, da, da, da, da. And, and, and he's like, oh, I'm sorry, man. I don't, I don't speak Spanish. And the guy says something else. He's like, you know, you know, no oblo. And the guy was like, you know, oh, he, he had jumper cables. He's like, can you jump the car or what, whatever it was. They were trying to get him to help him.

And he was like, oh, um, yeah, I don't, I can. I get, well, one of the, he starts to say, yeah, I can, let me pop the hood, you know, whatever. and one of the guys starts mouthing off one of the spanish guys he's like one of the mexicans he's like they were drunk it's like they he said one of them was clearly drunk and he's like oh you don't speak spanish you think you're better than us and you're driving you're driving your fucking corvette you think your bell you don't speak Spanish bro I know you speak Spanish you know and he was like he's like man he's like I really don't speak Spanish it's like I don't speak Spanish so he said I didn't speak

Spanish. And so he he ends up saying basically going, yeah, you know what? Good luck, bro. Goes to get in his car. Where the guy comes is coming around gets in his face as he's trying to get in. And he said

the guy starts fighting him. Like they start fist fighting. So I'm fist fighting. The other guys jump in is I'm trying to climb into my car. to get away from them. He said, my girlfriend is screaming her head off.

He said, I get into him holding onto my seat. And I remember my gun's under my seat. He said he reaches in. He pulls out, he pulls his gun out, turns around, boom, shoots one of the guys. He said, the other guys, I think they kind of take off. He stands up. The other guy is still there struggle, kind of like, grabbing for the gun. He said, I shoot him. He hits the ground and he unloads it.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. He unloads the entire clip into him. That's where you said, he was, that's where I fucked up. He said, shooting him, I had no problem. They said, you know, you shooting him fine. They said, but when he hit the ground, you unloaded your entire fucking clip in him. Now, now, he was arrested for, for murder. His whole thing was, I was being attacked. They were like, yeah, but, you, you, you was, it was way more than just deadly. force like you executed this guy or he when he when he dropped backwards and hit the ground and everything you could you should have stopped he wasn't a threat anymore you unloaded the clip and he's like keep in mind he said i was trained by a guy when i got my art my like your concealed weapons

permit they were like you unload your fucking clip to make sure these guys don't come back this is what he's telling me i don't know it's true or not the horrible fucking instructor i can tell you that because when i took that course that's when i that's why i said he fucked up because everybody always says that oh you you unload the clip you stop when it's empty you do that you're going to get fuck because what it is the the legal terminology that they use is you you're in fear for your life there's an imminent threat once you shoot him and that guy he's the ground he's no longer a threat so when you come up and you unload him and put three more times at that point you're the aggressor you're the one that committed the murder so

from the first two shots self-defense when he unloads the clip it's a it changes the ball game what happened to I'm curious He He had money At that time he had money I don't know if he still had money He must have still had money Because I'll tell you

Another part to it His lawyer's got it now Yeah His lawyer does So I remember he said They hired They did three mock trials He said

I lost two of them One of them was a draw That's not good No He said I still went to he said I still went to

went to whatever it is I still went to trial he said because I they were offering him I forget what it was they were offered him 15 years or something and he didn't want to take it and he's like I didn't feel I did anything wrong he goes to trial

they get on there they do the whole thing he loses he loses and he gets sentenced, and I want to say, I don't remember the sentence. Let's say he got 30 years or 25 years. I don't know, okay? I don't remember the sentence because he said, so my lawyer, he's like, so I got 30 years.

I'm waiting to go to jail, to prison. I'm locked up. I'm now in custody because he was out. Right. You know, he had gotten bond. Now he's, they take you. You know, that would you've. Stop.

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Tickets on sale now. August 1st. Boom, boom, sentence, take him. He said, my lawyer puts in a motion to whatever, you know, quash this evidence and get a new trial and whatever. And he said, um, and he said, the judge denied it. He said, he came back to me and he said, yeah, we got the denial. He said, I'm talking to him through the glass. right. I'm in jail waiting to be moved to prison. He said, he said, look, I can file a whatever, a Johnson motion or whatever you call. I don't know what it was.

And he's like, yeah. You see, the first motion was like fucking 45 pages. Denied. He said, second motion, he said, 25 pages. Denied. He said, comes back. He said, I can file this motion. He said, it was about 10 pages. Denied. He said, comes back and said, I can try and say, that they did not prove that it was not premeditated, but it was something. Because it wasn't premeditated. It was something. That they didn't prove, they didn't prove their case. And he goes, it's a weak argument, bro.

It's weak. And he said, and he goes, he said, fuck it, bro. Just file it. Just file it. And he goes, okay. He files it. He said, I'm talking about like six. He's just like fucking five pages, six pages. He's an act.

That includes the front page, the one you find. This thing's like four pages of actual content, four and a half or something. It's not good. He said, the judge said, okay, you're right. I don't think they prove their case beyond the shadow. I don't think it's, whatever it was. He said it was a weak argument. Judge said, I absolutely agree.

Absolutely. Boom. He said, they had 10 days to refile their case. the charges and he said so they that my conviction boom gone

my sentence gone he said they had 10 days they refile for it okay we'll take them to trial again he said then they came to him and they said look

we'll give you time served or something I forget what it was maybe three years or five it was extremely a minor minor

whatever, right? Maybe six months. I don't know what it was. But it was so, he was like, oh, fuck yeah. Signed it. He said, so I, I want to say it was some kind of time served, but he was a felon. He's now a felon. He's like 10 years.

That's what it is. It's time served. You don't have that threat of going back to jail, but you're still guilty and you're a felon. Correct. Because keep in mind, too, they're going to present the exact same evidence that they've already presented. And they've already, he's already gotten this award.

So there was less likelihood. that he was going to be found. He's like, because I was thinking, well, they already proved you. They already found you guilty once there. Just do it again. He goes, no, no, no, no. Because now I have this motion and they can only present the same thing as they don't have any new information. By the way, this I thought was funny too.

His girlfriend had broken up with him. And I think he was engaged to a woman he had met while he was out on bond or something. Maybe he was married. I don't know. But she was with him the whole time he was locked up. Here's the interesting thing. he um oh shit he uh the girlfriend that he broke up with that was there she testified for him i was like bro you're you're lucky he's like no i mean we were on good it just didn't work out it's like

you know he's like i barely been dating or we've been dating a few months and he said this was traumatic and you know she didn't sign up for that he's but i love the fact that he said and when we broke up she said listen no matter what happens i will come and testify for you he isn't she didn't she was like i'm testified in the fucking next one She's like, you didn't do anything. I know, I would, she's like, I was fucking terrified. So he takes the deal. He gets out.

I want to say six or seven years later. His, somebody is selling drugs. Maybe he was selling drugs. I don't know what the issue was. But his, his body shop was rated. they find nothing there's nothing whatever I don't know if it was because of him

or if it was because of an employee I don't know what it was I want to say it was an employee he said I didn't have nothing to do with nothing but they raided his place they find a gun it's his gun he gets five years

because he's a felon in possession of a firearm so he ends up getting like five years he goes to he had gone to another prison for a couple years and then he came to Coleman and that's when I met him in Coleman. I want to say his name was Eddie. Anyway, here's what I always thought was very interesting about Eddie. By the time he got this charge, he's now got a daughter who's like five years old, four or five years old, still owns the body shop, married, goes to jail. When he goes to jail, he wrote something like he said, he wrote, 50 letters because he goes, my wife is my lifeline to the outside. He's like, you know how it is. And I was like, right, right. He's like, I have no ability to be on the internet.

I can't really email back. I can't, you know, he's like, I know everybody she knows. She's really the only person I'm communicating with. I said, okay, he wrote like 50 letters to department stores throughout the United States. So at first I hit my area, nobody. Then more areas, then other ways at Dillard, Burdine, Sacks. He finally got a woman from, here's what he was writing. I want to be able to send my wife presence without anybody knowing.

And I'm in prison. I need help. There are 50 letters. Some woman at Sacks Fifth Avenue wrote him a letter back and said, you have to pay up front I will pick the presents and I will wrap them and mail them and you have to pay up front

and he was like that's all because he's like that's all I want I'll pay up front like I'm not trying to it so this isn't a scam I just don't want my wife to know like I want these things to show up and she has no idea how they're getting there I want to say it was like three or four years he'd been doing this

and she was his wife was like she's getting stuff for her birthday for Christmas for and you know the woman was um he's like she's writing them letters hey and she oh she sent him she would send him um like catalogs and hey we just got this your wife might like this he's like it became almost a friendship yeah like she looked up my case she'd she'd read about it she had cut out articles and sent them if you need anything else let me know like really a good person and he said you know of course i you know i sent them i was able to because you can have if you have an inmate account you can have checks issued and mail places

yeah so you this is a this is a huge effort on his part but he did that and uh that's why that's one of the reasons that he sticks out to me because his case was like wow bro like you're in prison, he only took up a plea because he was so scared to go to trial. And he's like, listen, if the mock trials, he said, if I hadn't been found guilty, the mock trials kept telling he said, I would have gone to trial again. And so the only reason he was in prison was because he accepted the plea to, and he accepted the felony. If he hadn't accepted the felony, the gun wouldn't have mattered. The gun wouldn't have mattered and he wouldn't have had to go to jail for five years or four years or four years. I forget what they gave him. Four years, five years.

And yeah, there's, listen, there's like another part of his story that is so heart-wrenching. I'm not going to tell you between him and his daughter because I really have to stop fucking getting emotional on these fucking podcasts and tearing up. And I can't even tell you this. I can't even think about it without fucking getting fucking getting fucked up. that bad has something to do with him and his daughter just a horrible situation um i mean she's a sweet girl and everything was just a realization on her part about him having to visit him in prison one day she realizes what's happening like she doesn't you know you're four or five you don't really know but years she's starting to figure out something's wrong you know and then they get to that point where it's like daddy come home come once you come with us come you know oh fucking just oh yeah bro

And it's much worse. I'll tell you when I get, I'll tell you when we get off. You're going to be fucked up. It's like that. Dude, I can imagine because it come to a point to where I didn't know if I was going to look my son,

he's 16 now. And at the time, he was like eight. So he didn't really understand what was going on. But they're talking about it at school. Kids are talking about it. Hey, I heard you dad shot someone and,

you know, to him, he's like, he even said he's like, yeah, it was self defense. So he's, I mean,

he heard me say that. And, you know, that's the narrative we're going with. you know but I don't think he even understood the pressure and the what was hanging in the balance at the time and I think about that like when I was out on bond literally within a month and I think I shared the story with you but you know my daughter graduated so I was able to go to her graduation I couldn't go anything else I had to come home after her I couldn't go out to eat or

nothing like that and said you can go to her graduation come home and so I'm going to there and I'm just like I'm starting to cry because I'm thinking like I'm seeing her graduate well I'll be out when my son graduates, if this, you know, if this don't go my way. And, and that's one thing that we didn't really talk about with this case, because if they give him a self-defense case, there's essentially, could be two trials. There could be a self-defense case. And in that, it's flipped because in a normal trial, the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you did what they said.

But now, if he's claiming self-defense and they do an immunity hearing based on self-defense, it's a hearing like normal but the burden of proof is flipped and you can only do that one time so you can say hey my client did this a self-defense but all the proof is going to be on them to prove the narrative that he acted in self-defense and if they come back and say no bro you didn't do that then it's trial and he can't mount that defense at trial correct he can't use that I mean he can still use some of it but obviously if it didn't work then it ain't going to to work or the other one and you you have the one shot and that's what my lawyer told me he's like because we were preparing for for that for the immunity hearing he was like we have to make sure we

have our shit together because he's like we can't rush into this we got to make we were flying forensics experts in from new york they were setting up lasers at the house shit off seaside miami look like i mean you know blood swabs this that dna yada yada the whole the whole nine yards shit you see on tv and he's like we have to have it ironclad full proof he said we have one shot he said if you do not win the self-defense hearing he said we can't he said we can still go to trial and prove that you didn't act you you didn't murder the guy but the self-defense claim is done also the self-defense claim if they can win it it will protect his family from being sued by the metcalf family because they're saying you were then your right to do what you did

and the metcalfs can't come back and sue them which is why like oh was found not guilty of the murder, but then the Goldman's come back and still sued him for five million dollars. Yeah. Even if you come, if you beat it in a regular trial, if they say, if they go to a regular trial, got, you know, and they come back, we find him not guilty, the Metcalfs can still sue the Anthony's in a civil, in a civil suit. So we could be looking at two trials.

One, the first one would be the self-defense trial. And if that goes bad and it doesn't go his way, odds are. the other thing that won't go his way either. But the thing is they're going to offer you that plea deal first before you do the immunity hearing. So if you deny that plea deal and you go with that immunity hearing and it doesn't go your way, it's not a long, yeah, much worse because a long fucking year,

year and a half, and listen to agony, that kid is going to go through five years. I was wondering what was going to be my outcome, which was a long time. But mine had different circumstances. as it was COVID and it backed David the courts and everything else, but that is the worst feeling. I feel for the kid.

I feel for the other family too. But he's... No, I feel for both families, absolutely. I mean, I think that the kid, I think, I, you know, I think Carmela fucked up. Like he, like, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're a fucking real asshole.

You know, you know what I'm saying? That's a real, he was a real piece of shit move. It was a stupid move. But I also take into consideration, you're a 17-year-old boy. You know? Yeah. You know, it's, it's, I think it's manslaughter.

That's what I think it is. Yeah, I would agree with that. Probably get to manslaughter. The biggest thing that they're going to be able to argue is you're not locked in a fucking house. You're not in a closed off room. You're not surrounded. You're at a school event at a field and a fucking tent.

You had an ample opportunity to leave. Even when you first walked in and realized it was the wrong tent, you get to hell out. Look, if I'm with my high school and I know our biggest rivals are out there, And somehow, I know they're wandering to their tent. I'm getting the hell out of there quick. I know what's good. I know how that shit operates, you know. He had all the opportunity in the world to leave, and that, unfortunately, is what they're

going to, you say, unfortunately, that's what they're going to, that's what they're going to hone in on. That's their job. And I think that's what's going to be his demise in this case. It will get highly publicized. It will cause a huge, much worse racial divide than we already have. People will pick sides. People will probably lose friends over this thing.

it would be a great divide and unfortunately at the end of the day he's probably still going to do some time and the other kids, you know, never going to come home again. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, the real problem is, is that there is just, there is no good solution. No, there's not. It was like, oh, this is what shit, there will never

be a good solution because this, you know, Austin is not coming back. You know, like there's just no. And Carmelo is going to have an irrevocable monkey wrench thrown in, you know, rightfully so,

thrown into his life. And he, his life will forever be defined by this. It's some way, it will never leave him. You know, so like I said, in the end, it's just, no matter how much time he gets or doesn't get, it's just never going to bring

back the other kid. And it's just, it's just, it's just, you have a hundred years, had families never going to heal from that. Oh, absolutely. You give them, you give him 10 years or 100 years. Like, no matter what, it's just a shitty solution. Just because there's no good solution. Hey, you guys, if you like the video, do me a favor, hit the subscribe button, hit the bell.

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