Karmelo Anthony Denied a New Trial, the Clancy Defense Rests on 'a Puppet With Someone Pulling the Strings,' the Last Photo of Tupac

A Texas judge denied Karmelo Anthony's motion for a new trial Saturday, leaving intact his murder conviction and 35-year sentence for the April 2025 stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet. Retired Kaufman County Judge Michael Chitty ruled in a one-page order without explanation, two days after a hearing at which Anthony's former trial attorneys testified that a dispute over an unwritten "gentleman's agreement" with prosecutors kept him off the witness stand. Chitty was assigned to the case after visiting Judge Sid Harle recused trial judge John Roach Jr. over a post-verdict television interview. Collin County DA Greg Willis said his office expected the ruling; defense attorney Russell Wilson said the case will continue on direct appeal to the Fifth Court of Appeals. Also: the defense rested Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick testified she was "frankly psychotic" and described her as "a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings." Prosecutors called rebuttal witness Dr. Avram Mack, who found a major depressive episode and no psychosis. Closing arguments are expected this week. And in Las Vegas, jurors in the Duane Davis trial heard from the man who took the last known photograph of Tupac Shakur alive.

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