Karmelo Anthony's lawyer asks for new trial over track meet killing as new details emerge

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony's conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats. That agreement is at the center of whether a judge will order a retrial for Anthony, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison over the killing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf last year during a confrontation in the bleachers of a high school stadium near Dallas. Anthony, 19, sat at the defense table as one of his attorneys argued that the agreement was among several missteps allowed by the court that marred the June trial. The hearing was set to continue Friday, and it was not clear when the judge will make a ruling on Anthony's retrial request. Anthony is Black; Metcalf was white.

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