{"id":1146,"date":"2026-07-09T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:45:44","slug":"outrageous-new-entitled-request-by-murderer-karmelo-anthony-revealed-as-he-launches-fresh-bid-to-be-freed-from-prison-for-killing-of-austin-metcalf-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous new entitled request by murderer Karmelo Anthony revealed as he launches fresh bid to be FREED from prison for killing of Austin Metcalf, 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teen killer\u00a0Karmelo Anthony<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is seeking a new trial and wants a different judge to oversee any future legal proceedings in his conviction for the murder of Austin Metcalf, his defense team has revealed.<\/p>\n

Just last month, a jury in Collin County, in the suburbs of Dallas, took less than three hours to convict the 19-year-old of murder over the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in April 2025.<\/p>\n

The same jury sentenced Anthony to 35 y<\/p>\n

Now, the legal team working to overturn Anthony’s conviction has confirmed it has filed a motion for a new trial. The attorneys are also seeking to remove Judge John Roach, who presided over the June trial, from any future proceedings in the case.<\/p>\n

‘The legal defense team representing Karmelo Anthony has filed a Verified Motion to Recuse, requesting that Judge John Roach be removed from presiding over all remaining post-trial proceedings,’ Anthony’s lawyers said in a press release.<\/p>\n

‘The defense has also filed a Motion for new trial, raising constitutional and legal challenges stemming from the trial, and is requesting that those issues be decided by an independent judge.’<\/p>\n

Anthony’s new legal team did not explain why it is seeking Judge Roach’s removal.<\/p>\n

But in a previous interview with the Daily Mail, attorney Lee Merritt – who is not a member of Anthony’s legal team but has been advising his family – outlined the arguments he expected would be raised in any appeal.<\/p>\n

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The murder trial for Karmelo Anthony (right)\u00a0 is set to start June 1. Anthony is on trial for murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf (left) at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas in April 2025. Anthony has pleaded not guilty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anthony has enjoyed greasy and sweet diner favorites every morning while awaiting his appeal at the Wallace Pack Unit near Navasota<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ears in prison, rejecting his claim that Anthony acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teen killer\u00a0Karmelo Anthony\u00a0is seeking a new trial and wants a different judge to oversee any future legal proceedings in his conviction for the murder of Austin Metcalf, his defense team has revealed. Just last month, a jury in Collin County, in the suburbs of Dallas, took less than three hours to convict the 19-year-old of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}