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(5,586 posts) Fri Jul 1, 2016, 03:53 PM Jul 2016

Teen who urged suicide via text will stand trial, court rules [View all]

Source: CBS News

A teenage Massachusetts girl who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and who allegedly told him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state's highest court ruled Friday.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that a grand jury had probable cause to indict Michelle Carter, then 17, in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III, 18.

Carter's lawyer had argued that her texts were free speech protected by the First Amendment and did not cause Roy to kill himself.

But the court, in a strongly worded decision, said the grand jury heard evidence suggesting that Carter engaged in a "systematic campaign of coercion" that targeted Roy's insecurities and that her instruction to "get back in" his truck in the final moments of his life was a "direct, causal link" to his death.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-text-conrad-roy-michelle-carter-trial-court-rules/

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Teen who urged suicide via text will stand trial, court rules [View all] Calista241 Jul 2016 OP

I hope this POS gets the maximum allowable sentence. Initech Jul 2016 #1

...!100++++ 840high Jul 2016 #28

The umbrella of the First Amendment gets larger and larger ailsagirl Jul 2016 #2

I don't know if I would find her guilty or not SCantiGOP Jul 2016 #7

I'm just shaking my head in angst and sorrow ailsagirl Jul 2016 #8

mean people are usually cowards SCantiGOP Jul 2016 #9

Sometimes I wish the internet didn't exist n/t ailsagirl Jul 2016 #11

You and John Connor. nt Xipe Totec Jul 2016 #32

So when Fox News or Hannity urge greiner3 Jul 2016 #22

For the same reason that you cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater as a joke, you Dustlawyer Jul 2016 #24

Sounds like a real piece of work IronLionZion Jul 2016 #3

OMFG! What a horrific little piece of shit this girl must be. Photographer Jul 2016 #4

Maybe she's mental ailsagirl Jul 2016 #33

What a can of worms of a case. Jerry442 Jul 2016 #5

Awful as she must be, that should be some crime less than treestar Jul 2016 #6

Reckless endangerment, or depraved indifference maybe? Jerry442 Jul 2016 #10

Yes maybe some variation of menacing treestar Jul 2016 #12

the difference between a terminal disease and depression are pretty obvious passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #16

It might be possible to prove treestar Jul 2016 #18

There is something wrong with her. OrwellwasRight Jul 2016 #44

She might be able to plea down to lesser charge rocktivity Jul 2016 #30

Or even intentionally treestar Jul 2016 #36

Well, a conscious intent to kill is second degree murder rocktivity Jul 2016 #39

I don't know... She engaged in a lengthy campaign of coercion. yardwork Jul 2016 #38

Kids like this bucolic_frolic Jul 2016 #13

I wonder wallyworld2 Jul 2016 #14

You're just jealous you're not a special snowflake. Hoppy Jul 2016 #25

I wallyworld2 Jul 2016 #31

so if bystanders yell "Jump!" to someone on a roof askeptic Jul 2016 #15

She was a year younger than him. Jeeze. passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #17

Who are you Urchin Jul 2016 #21

It's not judging, it's humane to want to help people treestar Jul 2016 #37

We are discussing suicide, not avoiding a fire passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #40

+1 treestar Jul 2016 #20

Yeah it's a weird case lostnfound Jul 2016 #26

What does this mean Urchin Jul 2016 #19

That First Amendment crap better not fly. Otherwise it will open a can of worms. LiberalFighter Jul 2016 #23

Her complete remorseless attitude is what's most chilling Chasstev365 Jul 2016 #27

Carter's attorney must be an alumnus of the Crackerjack Box School of Law. rocktivity Jul 2016 #29

If this is what she does to her own boyfriend... jmowreader Jul 2016 #34

I don't think she likes anybody, sadly -- including herself. King_Klonopin Jul 2016 #35

And not just on the day of the event. OrwellwasRight Jul 2016 #45

Psychologically speaking, it may be a case of suicide by proxy. King_Klonopin Jul 2016 #46

She sounds like a psychopath. Odin2005 Jul 2016 #41

Here are the texts rocktivity Jul 2016 #42

Disgusting ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2016 #43