Karmelo Anthony Denied a New Trial, the Clancy Defense Rests on 'a Puppet With Someone Pulling the Strings,' the Last Photo of Tupac

A Texas judge denied Karmelo Anthony's motion for a new trial Saturday, leaving intact his murder conviction and 35-year sentence for the April 2025 stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet. Retired Kaufman County Judge Michael Chitty ruled in a one-page order without explanation, two days after a hearing at which Anthony's former trial attorneys testified that a dispute over an unwritten "gentleman's agreement" with prosecutors kept him off the witness stand. Chitty was assigned to the case after visiting Judge Sid Harle recused trial judge John Roach Jr. over a post-verdict television interview. Collin County DA Greg Willis said his office expected the ruling; defense attorney Russell Wilson said the case will continue on direct appeal to the Fifth Court of Appeals. Also: the defense rested Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick testified she was "frankly psychotic" and described her as "a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings." Prosecutors called rebuttal witness Dr. Avram Mack, who found a major depressive episode and no psychosis. Closing arguments are expected this week. And in Las Vegas, jurors in the Duane Davis trial heard from the man who took the last known photograph of Tupac Shakur alive.

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It's Monday, August twenty fourth, twenty twenty six. Three cases today.

Two of them are still running, one of them ended

over the weekend. And if you were not watching your

phone on a Saturday afternoon, you missed it. In Plymouth, Massachusetts,

the defense rested Friday morning in the Lindsey Clancy trial

after four weeks of testimony. It is now down to

a handful of rebuttal experts and then closing arguments, which

the judge has said could land as early as today.

In McKinney, Texas, a retired judge named Michael Chitty spent

Thursday and Friday listening to two days of testimony about

why Carmelo Anthony deserved a new trial for killing Austin Metcalf.

He had a hard deadline of today to decide. He

did not use it. On Saturday, he denied the motion

in a one page order that explained nothing, and the

conviction and the thirty five year sentence stand. And in

Las Vegas, the first full week of testimony rapped Friday.

In the trial of Dwayne Davis for the nineteen ninety

six murder of Tupac Shakur, where the jury spent five

days listening to a man talk his way into a

murder charge on tape. Let's get into it. On the

evening of January twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, in a

house on Summer Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsey Clancy strangled

her three children with exercise bands in the basement while

her husband was out picking up takeout and a prescription.

Cora was five, Dawson was three, Callen was eight months old.

Clancy then cut herself and went out a second story window.

Survived and has been paralyzed ever since. She has pleaded

not guilty to three counts of first degree murder. She

does not deny killing them. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has

never disputed the act. What he disputes is whether the

commonwealth can prove she was criminally responsible, and in Massachusetts,

that burden sits on the prosecution. On Friday morning, at

about eleven fifty, Reddington rested Lindsey Clancy, never took the stand,

and he saved his heaviest witness for last. The final

defense witness was doctor Philip Resnik, a forensic psychiatrist who

testified by video. If you follow these cases, you know

the name Jeffrey Dahmer, Timothy McVeigh, Casey, Anthony, and most

relevant here, both criminal trials of Andrea Yates. That parallel

is not subtle and the defense did not intend it

to be. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in Texas

in June of two thousand and one. Her first jury

convicted her. That conviction was thrown out on appeal, and

at her second trial in two thousand and six, a

jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity. Resnick

testified for the defense both times and told those juries

Yates had severe postpartum psychosis, so when he appeared on

a screen in Plymouth on Friday, everybody in that room

understood what was being invoked. Resnik told the jury. He

interviewed Clancy in May of twenty twenty three, about four

months after the killings, for roughly three hours. He also

interviewed her parents and went through her medical records. He

described a woman who was paralyzed, who presented as flat

and matter of fact, and who nurses reported was crying

every day. About her three dead children. Then he took

on the strongest piece of the prosecution's case. Here is

what the Commonwealth has hammered for four weeks. In the

hours before those children died, Lindsey Clancy was functioning. She

was texting, she was on the internet, She called restaurants,

she used Apple Maps. Her Apple Watch logged her walking

the house and taking stairs. The theory is that a

woman who can order takeout and time an errand is

a woman who knows exactly what she is doing. Theresnick's

answer was that psychosis is not a switch that stays flipped.

He said he was not suggesting she was frankly psychotic

every minute of that day, that she was functioning at

a level that was not frankly psychotic, right up until

the moment she had what he called a command hallucination

while her husband was out running two errands. And then

he gave the jury the image that the entire defense

case has been building toward for a month. He said

Clancy was in a dream state, that she did not

have control over her own body, that it was almost

as if she were a puppet and someone else was

pulling the strings. That is the defense in one sentence.

That is the whole thing. And then came the cross,

which was one of the better ones I have seen

in this trial. Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague did not try to

argue psychiatry with a man who has been doing this

for fifty years. She went and found something Resnick himself

had published in which he wrote that command auditory hallucinations

are easy to fabricate. People experiencing genuine ones do not

always obey the voice, especially when obeying would be dangerous.

Resnick's own writing used against Resnick's own conclusion. That is

smart lawyering. Then she went straight at the Yates comparison.

The defense had just spent an hour building. She pointed

out that Andrea Yates committed herself to a hospital five

separate times and attempted suicide twice, all while trying not

to hurt her children. Do you see the move the

defense wanted this jury thinking about Andrea Yates? Sprague said, fine,

let's think about a woman with a five times hospitalized, screaming,

red flag psychiatric history who fought her own illness for

years before it beat her. Then let's look at the

record in this courtroom. Because this is the thing I

keep coming back to Lindsey. Clancy told a lot of people,

a lot of things in the weeks before her children died,

her husband, her mother, her providers, her journal, anxiety, insomnia,

brain fog, depression, suicide, thinking, intrusive thoughts about harming the children,

all of it real, all of it documented, all of

it something somebody should have caught. But she never told

a single treating provider she was hearing a voice commanding

her to do it. That detail surfaces afterward, and not

in a clinical note from December. It surfaces to a chaplain,

to her husband, and to a psychologist the defense hired.

That is the crack this jury has to decide what

to do with. It. Does not mean she is lying.

Psychosis is a nightmare to reconstruct after the fact. But

it is the gap, and the prosecution has stood in

it for four weeks. The defense rested, and prosecutors did

not wait five minutes. They immediately called their first rebuttal witness,

a psychiatrist named doctor Avram Mack, who interviewed Clancy twice

in April of this year. He described a woman who

spent most of her day in bed, not much interested

in her physical therapy or in the food, and then

Max said the thing the commonwealth needs. He disagreed with

Resnik what he diagnosed was a major depressive episode, not psychosis.

He also disagreed with the doctors at the facility where

Clancy lives now who have diagnosed her with bipolar disorder,

and said he saw no evidence of sustain mania. Clancy

had told him she felt her body was damaged by

the medication she was on. Max's answer was careful. He

said he could appreciate that she felt side effects and

a degree of change from those drugs. He just did

not know that that belief was necessarily psychotic. That is

the fight. Two psychiatrists, both credentialed, both looking at the

same woman, one saying puppet, the other saying depressed, and

twelve people from Plymouth County get to sort it out.

Prosecutors have said they intend to call three rebuttal witnesses total.

Two more are expected today. And then there is the

fight happening with the jury out of the room, which

almost nobody is covering, and which may matter more than

any of the expert testimony. Thursday, Judge William Sullivan held

a charge conference that is where lawyers argue over what

verdict options actually go on the slip of paper the

jury takes into deliberations. First degree murder is on it,

second degree murder is on it, and Reddington is pushing

hard to get involuntary manslaughter on it too. His theory,

there is not insanity, it is involuntary intoxication. The argument

is that Clancy was over prescribed, that her medications were

changed and stopped abruptly, and that the drugs altered her

mental state in a way she did not choose and

could not control. Prosecutors are fighting it. Sullivan has not ruled. Look,

I'm gonna be honest with you about why that matters.

Right now, this jury has a binary in front of

it that jurors find unbearable. Either you send a woman

to prison for the rest of her life with no parole,

or you find her not criminally responsible and she goes

to a state psychiatric hospital. Nothing in the middle. Give

that jury a manslaughter option, and you have handed them

a place to land when they cannot all agree deny it,

and you force them to choose. Both sides know exactly

what they are doing there, and neither one is thinking

about mercy. They are thinking about arithmetic. One more thing

from last week. It is not evidence, but it is real.

Thursday morning, hundreds of women showed up outside the Plymouth

County Courthouse in pink, carrying homemade signs, and they did

not chant anything. The organizer, a woman named Renee Kimball,

has no connection to Clancy or her family. She said

it was not a protest and it was not a rally.

That when you are living in a mental health crisis,

it is already loud and chaotic, and a rally was

not what Clancy needed. So they stood in silence for

over an hour, then formed a circle, said the Lord's

Prayer and raised their hands in the shape of hearts.

Reddington stopped on his way in and people shouted that

they loved him. He said his client is beat up

and sad and that this would help her. And I

want to be careful here because there is a version

of this story that gets told badly. There are three

dead children in this case. Cora, Dawson and Callen did

not get a rally. There is no crowd in pink

standing on a street for them, and there never will

be because they are five and three and eight months

old forever. So no, I am not going to tell

you a crowd outside a courthouse is a beautiful thing.

It is a complicated thing. Some of those women drove

to Plymouth because they recognize something in Lindsey Clancy's medical

records that they recognized in themselves, and it scared them.

That is a public health signal, but it is not evidence.

The jury cannot hear about it, and it does not

get a vote. Cora Clancy was five years old and

in kindergarten. Dawson Clancy was three. Callen Clancy was eight

months old and had been alive less than a year.

They were strangled in the basement of their own house

by the person whose entire job was to keep that

from happening to them. Whatever this jury decides about why

that stays true, someone has to say their names when

we come back. A Texas judge answered the biggest question

in the Carmelo anthony case on Saturday afternoon in a

single page without explaining himself, and a two day hearing

exposed everything both sides had agreed to hide from that jury.

On April second of twenty twenty five, at a high

school track meet at Kaikendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, seventeen

year old Carmelo Anthony stabbed seventeen year old Austin Metcalf

in the chest under a team tent in the bleachers.

Austin died. When police took Carmelo into custody, an officer

referred to him as the alleged suspect, and Carmelo corrected

him and said he was not alleged that he did it.

He also asked whether Austin was going to be okay

and whether what happened could count as self defense. In June,

a Collin County jury took three hours to reject self

defense and convict him of murder, then sent an him

to thirty five years. He is nineteen now in state

custody at a Texas prison unit near Novasota, and on

Saturday afternoon, a retired judge named Michael Chitty signed a

one page order denying his motion for a new trial.

The conviction stands, the thirty five years stand. The operative

language is almost the entire document. Chitty wrote that upon

reviewing the motion, the record, the evidence, the briefs, and

the relevant case law, the court has determined the motion

should be denied. That is it two days of testimony

a recused judge, a courtroom full of families, and the

answer comes back on half a page with no reasoning attached,

and before anybody gets worked up. That is normal. Trial

judges deny these motions in that exact language. Every day,

nobody owes you an essay. But normal and satisfying are

two different things. And if you are the Metcalf family

or the Anthony family, you spend a week watching your

child's life get taken apart in open court and got

a paragraph back. Anthony's appellate team, led by an attorney

named Russell Wilson, filed the motion. Under Texas law, a

court has seventy five days from sentencing to rule, which

put the deadline at today. Chitty beat it by two days,

and that was not a courtesy. If he had let

it run out, the motion would have died anyway by

operation of law without anybody signing anything. Silence would have

been a no he chose to sign. How did a

retired judge from another county end up holding it? If

you were with us Friday, you know. Judge John Roach Junior,

who ran the murder trial, went on a Dallas television

station after the verdict and said the jury got it right.

Anthony had already filed notice of appeal On Wednesday, a

visiting judge recused him, holding that the test is not

whether roach could actually rule fairly, but how it looks

to a reasonable member of the public. That is not

a mistake. That is a choice. No rule requires a

sitting judge to go on television and create his own jury.

He chose to, and the cost was that the biggest

ruling in the case landed on a judge who had

never seen it. Chitty took the bench Thursday morning, and

what came out over the next two days is the

reason this segment exists. Because that jury never heard most

of what either side actually had before trial. The two

sides entered into what everybody in that courthouse has been

calling a gentleman's agreement unwritten off the record, keep the

case focused on what happened under that tenth that morning

and leave out prior conduct and character evidence about the

defendant and the victim. Both each side had material it

did not want a jury to hear, so they traded.

At this hearing. That trade got unpacked in open court

for the first time. Leed prosecutor Bill Wirsky described what

the state had been sitting on text messages on Anthony's

phone that he characterized as a doc documented pattern of

preoccupation with guns, knives, and fighting, And he told the

court that less than two hours before the stabbing, Anthony's

girlfriend went to an assistant principal at their school and

said she was scared of him and that he would

not take no for an answer. Then Anthony's own lawyers

put on the other half. They told the court Austin

Metcalf had a history of getting into fights and had

been involved in spraying racist graffiti, which Worski himself described

in blunter language than I am going to use here.

The defense said that incident drew twelve months of probation.

I want to slow down here because this is where

a lot of coverage is going to go badly this week.

None of that was presented to a jury, None of

it was cross examined, none of it was tested. It

came out at a post conviction hearing, where the question

was not what kind of people these two teenagers were,

but whether an unwritten handshake between lawyers cost a defendant

his constitutional rights. And nothing on that list changes the

fact that governs this case, Austin Metcalf was seventeen, he

was unarmed, and he is dead. Nothing a kid's spray

paints on a wall makes him fair game for a

knife years later. That is not a close call, and

I'm not going to pretend it is now. The legal

argument because there was a real one in here. Wilson's

core claim was that the structure of that trial was improper.

He told Chitty that Roach ran what he called a

shadow docket, governed by off the record agreements between lawyers

instead of rulings on the record. He argued there was

a waller violation, the constitutional problem you get when a

courtroom is improperly closed or hearings happen without the defendant present.

Roach barred cameras and capped public seating at twenty seven.

Wilson also argued the jury instructions improperly narrowed what jurors

could consider about self defense, and the biggest one the

defense said Anthony was effectively coerced out of testifying in

his own defense. Mike Howard, who represented an Anthony a trial,

spent hours on the stand Thursday walking through how the

two sides built that agreement. Toby Shook another trial attorney

followed Friday. Their testimony was that the defense understood the

deal to cover Anthony testifying about what happened under the tent,

and that the biggest dispute of the entire trial came

at the moment he was about to take the stand,

when prosecutors took the position the agreement did not protect

him if he did. Wilson told the court the argument

that followed was heated enough that his client lost trust

in the state, and Shook said out loud what every

defense lawyer in America was already thinking. If Anthony had testified,

the jury might have come back on manslaughter. Werski was

the state's only witness, and his version was flatly different.

He said there was never an agreement preventing Anthony from

taking the stand, and that the state assumed the limits

would get negotiated if the moment came. He also defended

the whole architecture of that trial, the closed hearings, the

tight court room, the handshake itself as now necessary because

of threats, public pressure, and misinformation around the case. His

position was that the restrictions protected the trial. The defense's

position was that they broke it. Shook conceded to his

credit that both sides could have walked away from that

handshake with genuinely different understandings of it. And that is

the whole problem with a gentleman's agreement. There is no

transcript of a handshake. When it goes wrong, you get

exactly this. Two experienced lawyers, neither of whom I have

reason to think, is lying remembering the same conversation two

different ways in front of a third judge two months

after a nineteen year old got thirty five years. There's

a playbook for this, and the playbook is put it

on the record. It takes ninety seconds. Nobody did. The

hearing ran past six Friday evening. Each side got twenty

minutes to close. Then everybody went home, and Chitty spent

his weekend reading a record he did not build. Reaction

came fast. District Attorney Greg Willis said his office respected

the decision and had expected it, that the jury's verdict stands,

and that his thoughts remain with the Metcalf family. After

a painful week, Russell Wilson said the defense respectfully disagrees

that the issues raised deserve real appellate review and that

the denial does not end the case. So here is

where this sits. The conviction and sentence are intact. He

is in a Texas prison, and he stays there. The

case moves to direct appeal in Dallas, where it will

sit for a year or more. And that is the

thing to understand about Saturday. The defense lost the ruling,

They did not lose the record. Everything Howard, Shook and

Wirsky said under oath last week is preserved on a transcript,

and appellate judges read transcripts for a living. The bar

on appeal is high, and most convictions survive it. But

anyone telling you this case ended Saturday is not reading carefully.

Austin Metcalf was seventeen years old. He played football. He

had a twin brother named Hunter, who was at that

track meet. He has been dead for almost seventeen months,

and his family spent last week watching lawyers argue about

a handshake while his name and his brother's name got

dragged through a hearing. Neither of them chose whatever the

Fifth Court of Appeals does with this, and whatever anybody

says about anybody's text messages, Austin Metcalf is the one

who does not get to come back. Someone has to

say his name when we come back. The first week

of testimony in the Tupac Shakur murder trial ends with

a man who took a photograph at a red light

and did not know what he had. On the night

of September seventh, nineteen ninety six, Tupac Shakur was shot

at an intersection just off the Las Vegas Strip, riding

in a BMW driven by Marion Knight, the head of

death Row records, a white Cadillac pulled alongside and someone

in the back seat opened fire. Night was injured. Shakur

died six days later at twenty five. For twenty seven years,

nobody was charged. In September of twenty twenty three, a

Clark County grand jury indicted Dwayne Davis, known as Keffi

D on one count of murder with a deadly weapon.

He is sixty three. He is pleaded not guilty, and

he is the only person ever charged and the only

person who was in that Cadillac who is still alive.

Jury selection began August tenth. Opening statements were August seventeenth.

Friday closed the first full week of testimony, and the

jury has now heard from sixteen witnesses. And here is

the strange shape of this trial. The state's best witness

against Dwayne Davis is Dwayne Davis not on the stand

on tape, over and over across almost twenty years. Thursday

the jury. He spent hours on a recorded interview Davis

gave in two thousand and eight to Los Angeles police

detectives working the unsolved murder of Christopher Wallace, the rapper

known as Biggie Small's in it. Davis walks them through

the shooting. He describes handing his gun into the back seat.

He says his nephew, Orlando Anderson, is the one who

rolled down the window and fired. He says if the

other car had been on his side, he would have

done it himself. The reason he was talking at all

is the reason his lawyer is fighting this case. The

detectives told him it was confidential. One of them, Greg Cating,

told him on tape that nothing he said that day

could be used against him. Someone in the room said,

nothing leaves this room, and then a detective adds the

caveat that has become the entire prosecution theory. If you

don't say nothing, it's cool. But if you go out

there and start talking. He went out there and started talking.

In twenty nineteen, he published a memoir called Compton Street Ledge,

laying out his version of that night in detail. He

has since tried to walk it back, saying he did

not write all of it and that parts were invented

to sell copies. Prosecutors say the book blew up whatever

protection the proffer gave him. That is the fight, not

whether he said it. Whether saying it in a bookstore

cancels the deal he made in an interview room. Then

came Friday, and Friday was different in tone. The first

witness was a man named Leonard Jefferson. He used to

sell cars to people connected to death Row Records and

through them, he had met Shakur on the night of

the Mike Tyson fight. He had sold his tickets and

was out on the strip, stopped at a light on

Las Vegas Boulevard on his way to pick up food

when he looked over and saw Shacker and Knight in

the car next to him, so he said hello, He

told the jury. Shakur did a double take and said

hello back, and when Jefferson asked where they were headed,

Shakur said they were going to the club and he

should follow. Jefferson asked to get a picture, pulled a

thirty five millimeters hammer out of his center console and

took one that is the last photograph of Tupac Shakur alive.

Minutes later, Jefferson was on the phone canceling his food

order when he heard gunshots. He testified he saw the

cars stopped and people running toward the BMW. A bicycle

officer rolled up. Night got out and the officer started

shouting at him to get down, and Jefferson told the

jury what he heard Night yelling that Pack was shot,

that Pack was shot, that they needed help. Sit with

that for a second, in a case that has spent

thirty years being mythology, that was a man at a

traffic light saying hi to somebody he knew. The second

witness Friday was Mario Diaz, a documentary director. He testified

that Davis was paid to appear in a Death Row

Records docuseriies that aired on BET, and prosecutors played clips

for the jury, including Davis on camera saying he is

the only one alive who can tell you who really

killed Tupac. Diaz testified the series was not scripted, and

that he did not give subjects questions in advance. That

testimony exists for one reason. Davis's defense is that his

statements are performance. His attorney, Michael Samft, has told this

jury that talk is not corroboration, that you have to

back up what a man says before you convict him

of murder with it. So the state is methodically establishing

that every time Davis told this story, he told it

to someone different, unprompted for money, without a script, and

kept telling it. After lunch, prosecutors played more audio, this

time from a two thousand and nine interview Davis did

with Las Vegas police, and there was one moment Friday

that had nothing to do with nineteen ninety six. After

the jury left, Davis spoke up to Judge Carly Kearney

and complained that his home address had been given out

during the proceedings. He said it was wrong. Kearney said

she had already admonished prosecutors about it after Soft raised

it with her. It is possible to hold two things

at once here. Dwayne Davis is presumed innocent, He is

entitled to a fair trial, and his address should not

be read out in open court. It is also true

that he is on trial because a twenty five year

old man bled out in a hospital bed in this city.

Testimony resumes this morning, with prosecutors working through a third

witness whose testimony was expected to carry into today. This

trial is expected to run about a month. Tupac Shakur

was twenty five years old. He had sold tens of

millions of records and had a life in front of

him that we do not get to know anything about.

He has been dead for thirty years, and for twenty

seven of them, nobody stood in a courtroom and answered

a single question about it. There is a version of

this story where he is only a legend, only a poster,

only a catalog. He was a person. He was shot

at a red light, and it took three decades to

get a jury seated. Someone has to say his name.

That's the show for Monday, August twenty fourth. If today

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I would like to hear it from you. One of

those three cases got its answer on a Saturday afternoon

in half a page. The other two could break before Friday.

We will be here for both. I'm Garrett Fisher. Do better.

A few notes on sourcing and where things stood when

this episode was recorded. This episode was recorded before court

opened Monday morning. Testimony in the Lindsey Clancy trial resumes

today with the prosecution continuing its rebuttal case. Judge Sullivan

has indicated closing arguments will likely fall Monday or Tuesday,

depending on how long the remaining witnesses take, and that

he would get give the attorneys an extra day to

prepare closings if needed. Nothing here should be taken as

a report on what actually happened in that courtroom today.

On the Andrea Yates comparison, Court TV's report on Friday's

testimony dates the Yates drownings to twenty eleven. That is incorrect.

Andrea Yates drowned her five children. In June of two

thousand and one, was convicted in two thousand and two,

had that conviction overturned on appeal, and was found not

guilty by reason of insanity at her second trial in

two thousand and six. We have used the correct dates.

Outlets also differ on when the Clancy trial began, some

citing July twentieth and others July twenty seventh, when openings

were delivered, and they count testimony days differently, so we

have described it as roughly four weeks rather than picking

a number on the Carmelo Anthony hearing. Everything you heard

about prior conduct by the defendant and by the victim

came out at a post conviction hearing. It was never

presented to a jury, never cross examine before one, and

has not been adjudicated. Some outlets have published specific verbatim

text messages attributed to Anthony. An additional background material about

both young men has been reported from court documents. Those

specific quotations appear in reporting. We could not verify against

wire service or public broadcasting accounts, so we characterize the

material rather than quoting it. We have not named the

young woman described as Anthony's girlfriend because she is a

private individual described in testimony as having reported fear of him.

We have also not repeated an allegation involving an incident

said to have occurred in twenty eighteen because it appears

in a single tabloid source and concerns conduct alleged when

the parties were children, and to correct an error circulating

in that reporting. Austin Metcalf is the victim in this case.

His twin brother's name is Hunter Metcalf. Judge Chitty's order

denying the new trial was signed Saturday, August twenty second,

two days ahead of the seventy five day deadline that

would have fallen today. It is one page and contains

no explanation of his reasoning, which is ordinary for an

order of this kind and should not be read as

a comment on the strength of either side's arguments. The

ruling leaves the conviction and sentence in place and does

not resolve the direct appeal, which is a separate proceeding

in the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals on the Las

Vegas trial. Several outlets, including wire photocaptions, described the Dwayne

Davis trial as beginning August tenth. August tenth was jury

selection opening statements were August seventeen. Court TV's trial page

has also at times dated the Shakhor shooting to February

of nineteen ninety six. The correct date is September seventh,

nineteen ninety six. We have also not repeated allegations Davis

made in recorded interviews about living people never charged in

this case. Those recordings were played for the jury and

are being reported elsewhere, but Davis his own attorney, has

told this jury his client cannot be corroborated, and Davis

has said parts of his book were fictionalized. Uncharged accusations

against named people sourced to a man whose own lawyer

says he is unreliable do not meet our standard. Lindsey

Clancy and Dwayne Davis have both pleaded not guilty and

are presumed innocent. Carmelo Anthony has been convicted and sentenced,

and the question before the Texas Court is whether that

trial was conducted properly, not whether he is innocent. This

episode discusses child deaths, suicide, and postpart of mental illness.

If you are struggling, you can call or text nine

to eight eight in the United States to reach the

suicide and Crisis lifeline for postpart of mental health. Specifically,

the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is available by caller

text at one eight three three TLCMAMA. Postpartum psychosis is rare,

it is a medical emergency, and it is treatable when

it is caught. Most people who experience postpartum mental illness

never harm anyone.