An appeals court has rejected the remainder of a Texas man’s appeal of his conviction and sentence in connection with a boxer’s 2018 slaying.
In 2023, the Third Circuit Court of Appeal threw out the murder conspiracy conviction of Carlos Anthony Toby in the slaying of local boxer Brandon Broussard. But in October, the state Supreme Court reversed that ruling, reinstated the conviction and sent the remainder of the appeal back to the lower court.
The Third Circuit orginally threw out the conviction based on Toby’s argument that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict him, and didn’t look at his other arguments. The Supreme Court said the Third Circuit was wrong about the conviction, reinstated it and then sent those other arguments back for review…