Attorneys for Karmelo Anthony filed an appeal Tuesday and requested a new trial for the former student-athlete convicted in the fatal stabbing of another student at a Texas track meet.
A jury sentenced 17-year-old Anthony to 35 years in prison after convicting him last month of the murder of Austin Metcalf, also 17, at a meet in Frisco, Texas, a Dallas bedroom community.
Anthony’s new attorneys, who did not represent him at the trial, said in their filings that the court erred when it restricted public access to the trial, violating Anthony’s rights…