Arthur Aidala
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 20 Aug
Arthur Aidala’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do any of them expressly allege that they said no in the moment and that they made clear with their body language or their voice explicitly that it was a no?
Well, they do now, you know, in the grand jury six years ago, they were a lot more it was a lot more hesitant. And now six years later, you know, it's much more. Oh, absolutely. It was absolutely clear that that's not what I wanted. So, you know, how testimony develops over the course of time.
All right. When he gives his closing argument, Mark, come up here and you and I can go together.
Nice. Love it. This case, honestly, this case is actually more about the opening argument. I truly believe that. I think you need to set the juror's mindset from the beginning, what they should be listening for, where the holes in the people's cases, where the evidence that they're not going to hear, they're not going to hear from any law enforcement that's
things were admitted to not from any medical doctors that anyone for treatment not from any psychologists or psychiatrists there's no dna there's no video there's no audio it's just them and you have to just judge their credibility judge their body language understand listen to all the inconsistencies that are going to come out and then you tell me whether there's a reasonable doubt
This is kind of exciting. Now I'm kind of looking forward to it in a way I hadn't been before. I'm definitely going to swing by. I hope I do get to see your opening.
I get all this free advice. Thank you. I get free advice from two groups. I'm excited.
All right. So moving on to cases on our docket, I want to kick it off with this case down in Texas. It's so disturbing. These two kids, these two high school kids, this didn't need to happen. The 17-year-old assailant, Carmelo Anthony, is arrested and charged with murder over the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. It happened on April 2nd.
Austin and his twin brother and this Carmelo Anthony, who belonged to a different school, were all at a track meet as spectators. And I don't totally understand because I've heard different versions of this, but it appears that at the track meets, they would set up these tarps and then various kids would hang out under the tarps.
And Austin and his twin brother and a group from their school were under one tarp. There were many tarps. And Carmelo Anthony, who was from a different school and definitely not part of their posse – came under the tarp and appears to have sat in Austin's seat.
Again, the allegations on exactly where he was and what the offense was remain somewhat fuzzy to me, but it was definitely under a tarp at a track meet. And the allegation is that Austin went over to Carmela. This is from the police report that Austin went over and Austin told Anthony that he needed to move out from under their team's tent. And. Anthony grabbed his bag again, quoting here.
This is a full description. Officer Taylor Wetzel wrote this based on what a witness told him. Then Carmelo Anthony grabbed his bag after being told he had to move and reached inside of it and proceeded to tell Austin, touch me and see what happens. No one really thought Anthony really had a weapon in his bag. And Austin proceeded to touch Anthony.
And then Anthony told Austin to punch him and see what happens. A short time later, Austin grabbed Anthony to tell him to move. And Anthony pulled out what was recalled as a black knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest and then ran away. Another officer spoke to two witnesses, one being the victim's twin brother, Hunter Metcalf. They were hysterical.
What we're hearing from Carmelo Anthony's defense lawyer is that they're going to argue this was self-defense. Of course. That, you know, he said, touch me and find out what happens, and then Austin touched him, and therefore he was in fear, and... pulled out a knife. I mean, you could argue self-defense if he had pulled out his fists and started punching Austin Metcalf. We wouldn't be here.
The law would not be involved. But Mark, he pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest. And you tell me, but the self-defense laws in Texas and in all states require proportionality.
Yeah, you can't claim self-defense. That's exactly right. If you started it and the other guy is like, OK, let's go, then you can't say I had to do it to protect myself. Here is Tim Pool. He's a podcaster, Arthur. He was on his show talking about this. And I'd love to get your reaction to what he says here. Watch.
That's a ground ball. I mean, that's a law school where you can't. So, sorry, you have to get punched in the face. You're not allowed to execute someone with a gun who's going to punch you in the nose. And just the way the law is, I believe, in all 50 states. You just said it, Megan. It's a proportionality. Let me just tell you how this case is going to get handled in Texas with this 17-year-old.
Oh, it should get. And this is the reality. And Marco, back me up. Guy Glash is going to get hired. He's going to get some kind of a child psychologist or child psychiatrist. They're going to do a whole buildup of this kid, who he is, where he's from, the defendant I'm talking about, who he is, where he's from, what his background is, any kind of mitigation whatsoever.
And then you're going to go in and you're going to sit down with one of the lead prosecutors of the Homicide Bureau in that jurisdiction. And you're going to be like, look,
You and I know that based on the witnesses, based on the evidence that we have, yes, there's a possibility I could go in front of a jury with a straight face and say self-defense, but that's too big of a risk for a 17-year-old kid who might spend the rest of his life in jail. We're not minimizing the loss of life of another 17-year-old, but let's not try to have too...
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