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McKINNEY, Texas \u2014 The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony\u2019s conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats.<\/p>\n

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That agreement is at the center of whether a judge will order a retrial for Anthony, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison over the killing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf last year during a confrontation in the bleachers of a high school stadium near Dallas.<\/p>\n

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Anthony, 19, sat at the defense table as his attorney argued that the pact ultimately marred the June trial, which ended with jurors rejecting his claims of self-defense. Prosecutor Bill Wirskye defended the trial as fair.<\/p>\n

The hearing was set to continue Friday, and it was not clear when the judge will rule on Anthony\u2019s retrial request.<\/p>\n

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Anthony is Black; Metcalf was white. Among the details that jurors never heard, according to attorneys on both sides, were that Anthony once sent a text message fantasizing about stabbing someone and Metcalf had a history of fighting and using racist language.<\/p>\n

During the trial lawyers on both sides told jurors the tragedy had nothing to do with race, but social media posts amplified the killing nationwide in racial terms.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll of us wanted the temperature on this, so to say, to be turned down,\u201d said Mike Howard, who was Anthony\u2019s lead attorney.<\/p>\n

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