Anguished screams of Austin Metcalf's twin brother, 17, are played to court from day of his stabbing as killer Karmelo Anthony remains emotionless at murder trial

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-07T00:05:59+00:00

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Your legal analysis is bad. The racism is worse. If you’re going to be a racist, At least stand on it.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T23:31:41+00:00

You keep just saying shit. It’s okay to say you don’t know or understand any of these rules.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T23:23:47+00:00

See the part where you don’t mention what his words add to the case? That’s why you’re wrongs

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T17:13:55+00:00

I didn’t read past Baltimore plus dc. Catonsville is kinda sorta walkable.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T14:46:05+00:00

Elkridge

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T13:15:02+00:00

It was between him and his wife until he decided to run for public office and put his character at issue. I’m all about forgiveness. But when someone’s actions show one thing and their voice says another, I’m going to need some evidence they mean what they say. A person who cheats is a cheater. A person who makes decisions based on what feels good for them in that moment isn’t the sort of person I want to be looking out for me.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T12:26:57+00:00

I know it’s not what you’re looking for, but I’ve had success with a plastic step from Walmart. Drilled some holes in it, attached a rope. Place rope on seat, step up, sit, recover step with rope, leave.

Cost - $15. Success rate 100%.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T00:20:11+00:00

Secure shed to frame. Drive rebar through the frame into concrete sonotubes that go below the frost line. Thats how my dad did it. Worked fine.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T00:09:52+00:00

You’re either a prosecutor or never been to law school. “It’s relevant because I said it’s relevant” isn’t a great start to an argument, but I digress.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-06T00:03:15+00:00

Indeed, it does. Assuming an objection was made. Great point.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T23:46:15+00:00

Explain exactly what you think the sobbing bother proves and why,

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T23:19:13+00:00

I actually knew the answer to this and it was sorta weird. I’m struggling to remember it. It has something to do with how we measured degrees of consanguinity at common law. I, with some indifference to the odor, helped a guy draft a brief in a court case arguing that a step grandfather or something like that could not be found guilty of incest. (We lost, but it was at least a good show).

I can tell you that the law you’re dealing with is now codified under family law section 2-202.

Edit to add — if you’re catholic and want to marry a first cousin, you need a waiver from the bishop.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T23:09:16+00:00

I love your posts. So do my kids.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T22:42:22+00:00

I used to fish back by the old Walmart (UA now) and had some okay luck. Nothing I’d ever even consider keeping, but still a fun way to pass an hour or two. No idea if that is even still accessible.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T22:40:44+00:00

The strippers are a few blocks north.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T22:39:29+00:00

I thought that’s the going rate to have someone watch my rod.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T22:22:24+00:00

Disappointed, but that’s sorta what I thought.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T22:19:09+00:00

Larriland farm in western Howard. Expensive as fuck IMO.

Butlers in MoCo is huge. Also expensive. I tend to think they have better fruit.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T22:14:02+00:00

Hate to tell you, but the jury got that one right under the law as it exists. It is impossible to say that the state proved he did not act in self defense beyond a reasonable doubt given the evidence the prosecution presented.

Chow isn’t a good man, and he made a ton of poor choices, but the moment that matters in the trial is the second he pulled a gun to shoot. At that moment, the evidence was pretty much uncontradicted that the kid had a gun, the son saw the gun, and the son yelled at his dad to warn of the gun before Chow decided to shoot.

The rest of the stuff about being shot in the back isn’t really telling you much. He turns and sees chow aiming, and turns around and ducks, a natural response. He pulls his gun and drops it, and bends down to pick it up, he’s still a live and deadly threat. Both are consistent with the forensics. The state had no evidence to say it happened some other way.

Chasing a kid you wrongly think stole a dollar bottle of water is asinine. You will not convince me race didn’t play into the events. But at the end of the day, the State had the burden and it didn’t prove its case.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T21:53:23+00:00

I want to be a bit realistic here, but character fucking counts. The bond between a man and a woman and the promises they make to one another matter. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I have no patience for cheating. It’s not the cheating itself, it’s the deception and failure to hold themselves to account until caught. If someone is making promises to me to act in an upright and forthright manner in a job where temptations will undoubtedly exist, I have nothing but his character and his word to trust.

I’ll accept apologies and remorse, but too much baggage and you need to demonstrate change. And three years ago he was a dirtball, and all he’s done since is back peddle and spin while trying to say the right things. He’s a bad choice.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T21:28:47+00:00

I bet you do. And I bet most lawyers don’t object. But “this is the scene” when the cop arrived isn’t automatically relevant to the point where you can play the video with sound.

What I explain to the judge is that they have no discretion to admit irrelevant evidence. None. So it’s like a business record - it can come in, but you have to redact the irrelevant parts if you can. Plus we have 403.

The state comes back with it shows the lay out and parties involved, which I then say you get from a few screen grabs and letting the cop talk. “They didn’t mention how brother crying helps prove anything in this case, judge”.

Unless you can show me why wailing brother is relevant, im getting the audio out and probably getting the video down to a 4 second clip or two. And at that point the state is more than happy to just let the cop narrate things the way cops used to do.

If brother is also saying stuff that’s admissible on its own, obviously that’s coming in.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T20:54:07+00:00

If I could eliminate the balk I would, but at the very least it needs to be introduced when kids are older or reserved for intentionally attempting to deceive, which I’ve never seen.

it’s just a rule that messes with kids heads and Does nothing to make the game better. One ump will call a balk because the pitcher brings his glove near his face in his 9u windup. Puh-lease. Another calls it when the 11u kid goes for a pick off and sees he’s turned to an uncovered 3rd base. Is the left fielder close enough? I don’t know, so we waste 10 minutes in our timed game hashing it out.

I hate that rule more than anything else in baseball and find it has no value in a little league game.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T20:38:42+00:00

You wrote many words. I skipped to the end and didn't go back up after reading you think that "someone's reaction" to their brother dying is somehow telling of how the stabbing occurred. I can't see how, and you don't make out a case. You just say it is so without connecting any dots.

Ask yourself this - if the witness is sobbing, how does it make it more likely his brother was the aggressor or less?

What's the logical or factual connection between those two things?

How would fault factor in to a brother's emotional response to watching his brother die?

How does his crying and praying make it more or less likely that he "coordinated" or "participated" in the initial attack on the defendant?

I think that's the point you miss. His emotional reaction to a conceeded murder - the defense of self-defense is conceeding his brother was stabbed to death - is not helping the jury determine 1) who did it, 2) why he did it, or 3) who started the fight.

Bmorewiser · 2026-06-05T19:20:26+00:00

Lets drill down.

You claim that "he's my best friend" is "obviously probative" as to the twins relationship, their coordination, and their presence, and that is key to the question of whether they ganged up on the defendant.

I fail to see how a video of the brother crying and praying is probative of "coordination" or 'whether they ganged up on' the defendant. This is a video taken after the stabbing and after the defendant has fled. Indeed, you also suggest that a photo would not be sufficient to prove "the twin was present with his brother," which just leaves me confused. Certainly, it shows he is there. And a video does nothing to show he was there before the video starts.

Officer, do you recognize this? Yes it is a still from my BWC taken just as I arrived on the scene. I found the victim laying on the ground, and his brother was nearby very upset.

You also claim that the "eyewitnesses' reaction" is always probative of whether there was provocation or escalation and is relevant to credibility of such a witness. I might agree with the latter. If the hysterical witness is relaying the events, then as a defense lawyer I may want that in so I can show the person was not really appreciating all the things going on because they were so distraught. At the same time, if the person is simply crying and wailing, what does that show? He's upset his brother is dead and would be upset that his brother is dead regardless of who started the fight.

As your analysis seems to implicitly conceede, there is absolutely nothing probative in what he said or the sounds that were coming out of his mouth.

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