Court to hear case of teen who sent texts urging suicide

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Court to hear case of teen who sent texts urging suicide
Apr 7, 1:01 AM EDT

BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts' highest court is set to hear arguments in the case of a teenager charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself.

Michelle Carter is awaiting trial in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III.

Carter's lawyers are appealing a juvenile judge's decision denying their motion to dismiss the charges. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments on Thursday.

Carter is charged as a youthful offender and could face up to 20 years' imprisonment if convicted.




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Michelle Carter, Conrad Roy III. [/center]

[cstanleytech]

1. I dont see how the charges will hold up to be honest in court.

[azurnoir]

2. This did it for me and I hope they nail her

Prosecutors say Carter urged Roy to "just do it" and told him to get back in his truck when he became frightened that the plan to poison himself with carbon monoxide was working

[Nitram]

3. With a girlfriend like that...

...who needs enemies?

[snooper2]

4. This is one hell of a slippery slope- There have to be MILLIONS of comments on Youtube

You know how many videos I have come across with comments like that?

Shit, I commented on some of the Bundy fuckers YouTube channels telling them to shoot each other LOL

[Democat]

7. But he killed himself

She may be an accessory to suicide. Is that a crime?

[smirkymonkey]

5. She looks evil.

I really hope there is some kind of punishment for her.

[Democat]

6. No one was murdered so how can you charge her with manslaughter?

If there is a charge, maybe it should be accessory to suicide.

[jiminvegas]

8. Maybe conspiracy to commit suicide

But I don't think suicide is illegal in Massachusetts.

[LanternWaste]

11. Manslaughter is a term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.

Manslaughter is a term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder; while homicides are divided into many overlapping types, including murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in war, euthanasia, and execution, accidental death, etc.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

9. Urging someone with mental health issues to kill themselves...

this young woman needs to be in jail.

She supposedly loved this man and she is coaching him and telling him to do it. She might as well as killed himherself.

I have been in his place.... hospitalized for pre suicidal idealization. What she did was premeditated murder. She used his mental health issues to cause him harm... death. SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLING SUICIDE PREVENTION NUMBERS!

[tabasco]

10. Maybe she'll use the religious wacko defense.

"But he's in a better place now!"

[whathehell]

12. I hope they nail her...

What a sick scumbag.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. I can see no remores in her face. God I really hate some people. This is lower than low.