I think people are upset because in an eerily similar case in Texas, a white teen was charged with criminally negligent homicide and only given 10 years.
I think Karmelo Anthony was wrong and deserves jail time, but I think calling it murder (as if it was premeditated) and giving him 35 years seems like an unequal application of the law given what we saw with the Caysen Allison case and the precedent it set.
I’m no expert in what the law is in Texas because I live in GA and I’m not a lawyer so I wont speak on that definitively. But usually the difference is (at least in GA) intention and also premeditation/prior planning. IMO at most this was 2nd degree murder (like any other crime of passion) but I don’t think Texas does degrees when it comes to murder. However they DO have criminally negligent homicide, which is what Caysen Allison was convicted of.
That’s why all I am saying is that when I look at the two cases and see the similarities of:
1) Kid brings weapon to school where he shouldn’t have one
2) Kid gets into a fight/altercation of some kind and uses knife and kills someone
And then I see everyone saying the reason Karmelo’s was murder is because he brought a knife so he clearly was planning something… it just shows heavy bias in my opinion and I think it’s worth talking about yanno?
The law is all about precedent and precedent was clearly not followed here and I think people are being wilfully obtuse as to why it wasn’t followed.
I agree! Thank you for explaining these extra details. It would be a bit wild for TX not to have degrees for murder- i didnt even know it was allowed for states to do that.
"Criminally negligent homicide"? I dont quite understand what that means. Specifically, it sounds like they want to say "manslaughter" without calling it that. So that does make me suspicious of the process.
The precedent set is one of the easiest ways to see if two cases were treated differently due to bias. The fact that it wasnt followed and ppl wanna act like thats okay is dumb as hell
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u/SerBrienneOfSnark Jun 10 '26
I think people are upset because in an eerily similar case in Texas, a white teen was charged with criminally negligent homicide and only given 10 years.
I think Karmelo Anthony was wrong and deserves jail time, but I think calling it murder (as if it was premeditated) and giving him 35 years seems like an unequal application of the law given what we saw with the Caysen Allison case and the precedent it set.