Karmelo Anthony found guilty of murder in fatal stabbing of Frisco student Austin Metcalf

[Jedi Guy]

60. "He is appealing with new lawyers."

As is his right, of course. Let the chips fall where they may.

"...because they were educators."

So as per your own source, not because they were black, which would violate the Batson rule. I don't know why their profession would be relevant but evidently the prosecution made a persuasive enough case for the judge to agree. Whether that holds up on appeal remains to be seen but in a high-profile case like this one, particularly one laden with racial tensions, the prosecution would be pretty dumb to blatantly violate the Batson rule. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, of course, since people do stupid things all the time.

So why didn't you know that?

My deepest apologies. I shall strive to be omniscient henceforth. Less flippantly, I hadn't exhaustively followed the case, just read about the verdict when the news broke.

In any case, I don't dispute that there have been miscarriages of justice based on race in the US judicial system. I just don't think this is one of them. It's very clearly a case of wildly excessive force against a perceived threat, no different than someone shooting a person who just pushed them. The only difference is the nature of the weapon and I sincerely doubt anyone here on DU would defend the killer in that scenario.

YMMV, though.