00:00Donations continue to pour in for Carmelo Anthony, the Texas teen accused of stabbing
00:06fellow high schooler Austin Metcalf to death last year. Anthony's fundraiser on the site
00:11Give, Send, Go has raked in more than 1,500 in donations in just the last three days,
00:17bringing the total to more than 612,000. Much of the money will go to his high-powered
00:25attorneys with opening arguments in the case against him set to begin as soon as tomorrow.
00:31Anthony's lawyers are claiming he acted in self-defense when he stabbed Austin Metcalf to
00:36death. But a veteran attorney not involved in the case told The Post, he says that's not going to
00:42work. Randy Zellen, who has served as both a prosecutor and defense attorney and is an adjunct
00:48professor at the Cornell School of Law, says, quote, you cannot be justified in killing someone
00:53with a knife and stabbing them in the chest if they were not about to immediately use deadly force
00:59on you. Authorities in Texas say Metcalf did put his hands on Anthony, but only to try and shove him
01:05out from under an awning, which then sparked their dispute. Zellen says that the defense does have
01:11one ace up its sleeve, though, Anthony's race. The defense has tried to cast Metcalf as a white
01:17bully assaulting Anthony, a black victim. Zellen notes the defense's job is to get their client
01:23off by any means reasonably and legally necessary. If that means the race card gets a not guilty
01:29verdict or even a hung jury, then they have done their job.
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