Overview
- Prosecutors called about 21 witnesses and rested on Saturday after showing body‑camera footage and degraded stadium surveillance that captured the chaotic aftermath but not a clear start or end to the fight.
- Collin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Elizabeth Ventura testified that Austin Metcalf was stabbed through the heart by a roughly 2.5‑inch wound that she said was not survivable.
- Multiple student witnesses said Anthony was asked to leave a Memorial High School team tent repeatedly, issued threats such as “touch me and see what happens,” kept a hand in a backpack and then suddenly produced a knife.
- The seated jury of 12 with six alternates includes no Black jurors after prosecutors excused three Black prospective jurors for being educators and the judge allowed the panel to stand.
- Tight courtroom controls, protests outside the courthouse and a large online defense fund have raised concerns about outside influence while jurors now will weigh whether Anthony’s self‑defense claim fits Texas law and the evidence; if convicted he faces roughly five to 99 years or life in prison.