Apparently the jury has reached a verdict.
Guilty of first degree murder, the only charge they were allowed to consider.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/karmelo-anthony-verdict-reached/
Does anyone here know what first degree murder means in Texas? I thought that meant it was premeditated. That doesn’t seem to be the case here, from what I understand, since he kept asking if the other kid was OK.
A quick Google shows that my article posted above is poorly written.
In Texas there is:
Standard Murder (First-Degree Felony): Standard murder occurs when a person intentionally or knowingly causes the death of another, intends to cause serious bodily injury resulting in death, or commits a felony act clearly dangerous to human life that accidentally causes death.
and
Capital Murder (Equivalent to Aggravated First-Degree Murder): Capital Murder applies when the homicide involves specific aggravating circumstances, such as killing a police officer or firefighter, murdering a child under 10 years old, or committing the murder while engaged in another felony (like kidnapping, burglary, or robbery)
He was convicted of the first one which is a lessor charge.
I don’t think anyone is particularly surprised by this verdict. That kid is going to do hard time, but he’ll be released at some point in the future.
We’ve quoted multiple articles, since he was first charged, which don’t understand the Texas legal terminology and get it wrong.
Note the jury will now do the punishment decision. Unlike in most states where the jury only decides guilty vs no guilty while the judge sets the actual sentence, in Texas the jury must now unanimously agree on a sentence–from 5 to 99 years for murder. So it might compromise on a number like 25 years and after time off for good behavior, etc he might end up being in prison 15 to 20 years.
WORSHlPPERS?
I would say that a GiveSendGo fund (Gofundme knockoff) with more than $600,000 in it, for a person whose crime had multiple witnesses, indicates some level of admiration, if not outright worship, and race has NOTHING to do with it.
Holy shit, I don’t even know how to respond to this.
No, what you just posted is the “idiot” part.
Right out of the woodwork.
35 years
Anthony’s going to be pushing 40 by the time he gets out of prison (assuming he gets early parole for one reason or another). I’m seeing a lot of people upset by the verdict, some saying how unfair it is because it’s short and others because it’s too long. I’m not sure if the controversy is genuine or just a lot of online chatter.
Pushing 40? He’ll be in his mid 50s if he does the full sentence.
I’m guessing you didn’t see:
Oh, FFS. You were wrong a year ago when you predicted Anthony would violate the terms of his bail release, and you’re wrong about this.
The GiveSendGo fund set up for Karmelo Anthony was for his legal defense. Tens of millions of Americans have heard about this notorious case, and a whole lot of them are also aware that black defendants charged with crimes against white victims have historically not always received fair trials, to put it mildly.
If sixty thousand people tossed a sawbuck apiece at the Karmelo Anthony legal defense fund because they wanted to help prevent the possibility of the kid being railroaded in a racially discriminatory criminal justice system, there’s your $600K right there, without any “admiration” or “worship” involved to any degree.
So maybe dial it back on the malicious racist shit-stirring, for a change?
The accounts I saw said the jury was allowed to consider a manslaughter conviction.
My link above that discussed the verdict (not the one that discussed the sentencing) disagrees with you but I wouldn’t be totally surprised if it was wrong.
If they weren’t allowed to consider manslaughter, then that’s yet more evidence of a biased trial.