Texas adolescent accused of fatally stabbing another high school student at a slope meeting has their bail reduced to $ 250,000 and will be awarded a house trial, a judge ruled on Monday.
A judge in Collin County cut the initial bail of $ 1 million of 17 years old Karmelo Anthony and said he can wait for the trial at home with the ankle monitor and the 24 -hour supervision of his parents or an “adult design.”
Anthony has been locked in the Collin County prison for allegedly stabbing Austin Metcalf, also 17 years old, with a duration of a fight for a seat at a track meeting on April 2. He is accused of first degree murder.
The witnesses told the police that Metcalf tried to push Anthony, who attended a rival high school, outside an emerging store when Anthony grabbed a knife of his backpack and stabbed Metcalf in his heart, letting him bleed in his. Twin brother.
The reduced bonus occurred a week after Anthony’s lawyer said he would ask the court to reduce the bail of $ 1 million “excessive” and also asked the local district prosecutor to make “a better determination” of the charges.
Even if the child is convicted of the first murder, he will not face the death penalty, revealed District Prosecutor of Collin County, Greg Willis, last week.
“The Supreme Court has said that not only cannot seek the death penalty against someone who committed a crime when they are 17 years old, he cannot get life without probation. That would not be something that is, even us, they told WFAA.
Anthony himself allegedly told the Police that he was acting in self -defense, and his family said that “the narrative that is spreading is false, unfair and harmful,” in a collection of funds from GagoENDGO.com for their legal fees.
That fund collector has raised more than $ 415,000 so far.
Those defendants will help the family retain two Dallas lawyers with hot shots with a history of racial justice cases that accelerate the holders.
One, Kim Cole, represented the black teenager Dajerria Becton after a viral video of McKinney, Texas, showed a policeman hitting and holding her to the ground at a party in the pool.
Cole managed to win an agreement of $ 148,850 for Becton of the McKinney Police Department and the officer, who resigned.
Anthony’s other lawyer, Billy Clark, became a professional mediator after a 20 -year career in the Air Force.
In a recent statement, the pair of lawyers directed people to collection of funds from the Anthony family, but also emphasized that a previous Goofundme page that claimed to be created by Karmelo himself was false.
Gofundme’s false page, which has been low tasks, had affirmed that Karmelo was “skipped” and that Metcalf broke his phone, among other Salaces details.