Defense attorneys for Karmelo Anthony, who was found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf by stabbing him to death at a school sporting event, are seeking a new trial for their client, alleging bias from the judge in the case, unclear instructions given to the jury, and a host of other issues.

To be clear, this is not an appeal. These lawyers are seeking a whole new trial for Anthony. The request is likely to be denied.

There is going to be a hearing on this in August.

FOX 4 in Texas reports:

Hearings are set for next month as Karmelo Anthony seeks a new trial, six weeks after he was sentenced to prison for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet stabbing.

What we know: Anthony’s legal team is seeking a new trial over claims that the trial was effectively closed to the public, that prosecutors did not honor an off-the-record evidentiary agreement, and that instructions to the jury made it difficult for them to consider Anthony acted in self-defense.

They also asked for Judge John Roach to be removed from post-trial hearings because of his alleged bias.

In court filings, Anthony’s lawyers said the judge made comments to news reporters following the trial and “expressed personal opinions about the propriety and correctness of the jury’s verdict, the fairness of the trial and the correctness of the judge’s own rulings during the trial.”

When a reporter asked Roach if the jury got it right, he responded, “Yeah, they did.” The judge then reportedly explained himself and talked about his rulings.

The defense argued that the judge’s personal views suggest his probable decision on a motion for a new trial.

Again, this strategy is very unlikely to work.

Karmelo Anthony — the kid who stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a high school track meet in Frisco last year, just got his “new trial” hearings set for next month.

He was FOUND GUILTY of first-degree murder. Sentenced to 35 years. Self-defense claim rejected by… pic.twitter.com/3sTxsY0gIJ

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) July 25, 2026

Guilty is guilty. He can have 50 more trials and he’ll still be found guilty. This is an open and closed case. Nothing they present to the court will make any difference. But MAYBE he’ll end up with a LONGER sentence. THAT would be worth a new trial!

— Lola (@Chrisheff63) July 25, 2026

Anthony was lucky to avoid the death penalty.

Another trial is not going to magically find him innocent and send him home.

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Members of the American media, who have spent years calling Trump an authoritarian and have even repeatedly compared him to Hitler, are now complaining that the jokes he told at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner were too mean.

Remember, these same people also regularly accuse Trump of being thin-skinned for not wanting to be compared to a fascist dictator. But they break down at the slightest pushback.

They take themselves so seriously and are completely incapable of taking any criticism while they hurl insults 24/7.

Brian Stelter of CNN writes:

President Donald Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it.

But no. Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.

Members of the media mocking a leader’s dismal performance on live TV and all across the internet? In some other countries, that’s a criminal offense. But in the US, it’s the norm, so maybe Trump’s speech unwittingly underscored the theme of the dinner: America’s robust First Amendment protections.

In a rambling hour-long speech, Trump insulted journalists by name, repurposed old nicknames for political opponents, made a strange number of fat jokes that weren’t funny at all, and sounded mad at his unnamed writers for giving him weak material to work with.

The Associated Press called it an ‘insult-filled’ speech.

President Donald Trump delivers a rambling, insult-filled speech at the correspondents’ dinner three months after it was derailed by a shooting. https://t.co/9xEBljvC1C

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 25, 2026

ON ABC News, the network responsible for ‘The View,’ a correspondent called Trump’s speech insulting.

From NewsBusters:

ABC’s Good Morning America had the most to say of the three broadcast networks on Saturday after President Trump addressed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the previous evening. Correspondent Steven Portnoy got in all the usual beats, including referring to the dinner as “a celebration of the First Amendment” and lamenting Trump’s “insulting” performance. To make matters worse, Portnoy claimed the dinner was rescheduled because the April attacker wanted to target, not Trump, but “the dinner.”

Before his video report, Portnoy began by hyping, “The event had White House reporters insisting political violence can’t stop a celebration of the First Amendment.”

There are more examples, but you get the idea.

Our media is made up of crybullies who dish it out all day every day but can’t take it at all.

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As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier this week, the number of homeless people in the city of Los Angeles is rising, despite billions of dollars being spent to supposedly ‘fix’ the problem.

And because Democrats can never, ever take responsibility for problems that they created or made worse, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is blaming Trump for the rise in homelessness.

It’s so ridiculous. She probably doesn’t even believe this herself.

RedState reports:

LA Mayor Karen Bass Blames Trump When Confronted on Growing Homeless Problem

The homeless crisis is worsening in California. And the Democrats who run the state there have a familiar excuse for why their state is in a constant state of decline. It’s all Trump’s fault.

Homelessness in Los Angeles grew by about 3.4 percent over the last year. A survey conducted the previous year found about 44,000 people living on the streets, and 72,000 people across L.A. County.

L.A. Mayor Bass recently blamed the president for exacerbating the homeless problem.

“The Trump Administration has driven up the cost of gas, groceries and rent, pushing more families to the edge, and slashed critical safety net funding,” Bass said in a statement.

Bass pointed to cuts in federal housing assistance by about half last year, which cost the city around $70 million.

“For two years straight, we drove down homelessness by historic margins, but as expected, last year our efforts ultimately couldn’t keep up with policies and funding cuts at the federal and state levels that pushed more people onto the streets,” the mayor claimed.

Once again, Spencer Pratt was right, and now that he is out of the race, Nithya Raman and Bass are attacking each other over this.

JUST IN: Spencer Pratt was just proven RIGHT, Los Angeles homelessness is suddenly INCREASING again as NGOs commit rampant fraud and steal taxpayer dollars

They stole the race from the ONLY GUY who could fix it!

PRATT: “I warned you guys: the more homeless people, the more… pic.twitter.com/roRIALkCr3

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 25, 2026

Los Angeles may be truly lost.

The city had a chance to fix this problem by electing Spencer Pratt but the left took care of that.

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The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen targeted Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil company on Saturday with missiles and drones, marking a significant escalation in the second front of the ongoing Iran conflict.

President Trump issued new warnings against Iran this week, threatening to hit one power plant or bridge for every ship they hit in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran attacked another tanker near the coast of Oman on Tuesday.

The President has further said that he is weighing a “massive” attack on Iran, which would be “bigger than ever before,” he said. “They haven’t received enough pain yet,” Trump said as US forces continued 13 hitting Iran nightly for nearly two weeks.

US forces on Thursday completed a 13th consecutive night of attacks against Iranian military capabilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz since the fighting resumed earlier this month.

Video from CENTCOM shows the most recent attacks from the nearly two-week-long airstrike campaign:

The Houthis’ latest attack on Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure comes after they attacked two ships in the Red Sea while imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabian ports and the Bab ​el-Mandeb Strait, connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Per CBS:

The Houthis, an Iran-backed paramilitary group in Yemen, announced strikes on Saudi oil company Aramco’s facilities in Jizan and Yanbu on Saturday.

The Houthis fired “dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones,” which successfully hit their targets, according to spokesperson Yahya Saree. The strikes or whether they were successful could not be independently verified.

The group also confirmed the military blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern exit point of the Red Sea, remains in effect. The Houthis struck two Saudi-flagged commercial tankers in the Red Sea earlier this week, but had not struck any ships since then, bringing some calm to the region.

“We will not hesitate to expand our operations and escalate our actions based on developments in the coming hours and days, within the equation of a blockade for a blockade and an escalation for an escalation,” Saree said in a statement.

“There is no closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait as some promote, and the announced Yemeni position by the Yemeni Armed Forces is limited to a naval blockade targeting only the Saudi side in response to its siege of Yemen and its refusal to accept any fair approach to a solution that guarantees the security, sovereignty, and independence of the Yemeni people,” Houthi negotiator Mohammed Abdusalam said Friday on X.

لا إغلاق لباب المندب كما يروج البعض وموقف اليمن المعلن من قبل القوات المسلحة اليمنية يقتصر على حظر بحري يطال الجانب السعودي فقط ردا على حصاره اليمن ورفضه القبول بأي مقاربة منصفة للحل تضمن أمن وسيادة واستقلال الشعب اليمني .

— محمد عبدالسلام (@abdusalamsalah) July 24, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump threatened on Thursday to “hold Iran responsible” and inflict “major military punishment” upon Iran and the Houthis after the Iran-backed group began targeting shipping in the Red Sea on Wednesday.

“The U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves,” the President said.

US forces also took out an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday amid the US Navy blockade of Iranian ports.

Video from the mission released by CENTCOM shows US forces conducting a “verification boarding” on a Comoros-flagged tanker in the Arabian Sea and attacking a Mozambique-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it “attempted to violate the blockade multiple times.”

WATCH:

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The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) has fired a staff attorney after she posted a profanity-laced anti-ICE tirade.

Shannon Desherow, the leftist Assistant General Counsel at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, has been FIRED after posting an expletive-filled TikTok tirade in which she refused to cooperate with ICE, claimed the agency has “no authority and no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens,” and urged Americans to “make their lives f—ing miserable.”

OSBI confirmed the termination to Fox News after completing an internal investigation.

“Once we were made aware of her social media post, we opened an internal investigation,” an OSBI spokesperson said.

“Upon completion of the internal investigation, she was terminated. Since this is a personnel matter, we are unable to further comment at this time.”

Desherow’s unhinged video, which first exploded after Libs of TikTok amplified it in early July, captured the radical attorney ranting from what appeared to be her car:

“Conservatives really think they’re doing something when they say, ‘Just comply’ when it comes to ICE and United States citizens… why the f— would I comply with someone who has no jurisdiction over me… ICE has no authority and no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. So why the f— would I comply with an order given to me at gunpoint by somebody who has no f—ing authority to make that order? I’m not going to. That’s the f—ing thing.”

She continued: “An ICE warrant, by the way, 99% of the time, is an administrative warrant. It’s not good enough for the f—ing Fourth Amendment… I was born here, and I’m going to make it an ICE agent’s problem. I don’t have to f—ing comply with ICE, because I was born here. And every citizen needs to have that f—ing mindset. We need to make their lives f—ing miserable, and that’s exactly what we should be doing.”

WATCH:

Meet Shannon Desherow, Assistant General Counsel for the State of Oklahoma.

She went on an unhinged meltdown, appearing to threaten ICE and saying she will NOT comply.

“I’m gonna make it an ICE agent’s problem. I don’t have to f*cking comply with ICE… we have to make their… pic.twitter.com/96md6nV5Kx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 9, 2026

This is the same taxpayer-funded lawyer whose LinkedIn bio proudly described her as a “leftist in a red state” and featured a Palestinian flag emoji. She was paid by Oklahomans to work inside a law enforcement agency while openly encouraging resistance to federal immigration enforcement.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond immediately distanced the state from her comments and called her out hard.

“Her comments attacking the credibility and mission of ICE do not reflect the values of Oklahomans or the views of the law enforcement professionals who work every day with our federal partners to keep our communities safe. Anyone in Oklahoma law enforcement who feels so passionately against our federal partners should resign. Homeland Security, FBI, DEA and ICE are critical allies to Oklahoma… An attack against one of them is an attack on the entire system that protects our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation’s Shannon Desherow does not speak for Oklahoma. Her comments attacking the credibility and mission of ICE do not reflect the values of Oklahomans or the views of the law enforcement professionals who work every day with our federal… https://t.co/qANUQbmSUt

— Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (@Okla_OAG) July 10, 2026

Republican Lt. Governor candidate T.W. Shannon also praised the outcome: “BIG NEWS: Sources tell me this ICE-hating radical leftist has been terminated from her employment @OSBI_OK… That is exactly what should have happened… No one who encourages citizens to refuse cooperation with law enforcement should ever be employed by a law enforcement agency.”

BIG NEWS: Sources tell me this ICE-hating radical leftist has been terminated from her employment @OSBI_OK and processed out. That is exactly what should have happened, and I commend OSBI leadership for making the right move. No one who encourages citizens to refuse cooperation… https://t.co/MHMSlSopVl

— T.W. Shannon (@TWShannon) July 24, 2026

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