Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend's suicide, has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court.
for her role in the death of Conrad H. Roy III, who died in 2014 by inhaling carbon monoxide inside his pickup truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, while on the phone with Carter.Bristol County Sheriff's Officehis truck as it was filling with poisonous fumes. She was 17 at the time and only about a month out of a psychiatric hospital when Roy took his own life.
The petition states that prior to Carter's case,"no state had interpreted its common law or enacted an assisted suicide statute to criminalize such 'pure speech'" and that no one has been convicted of encouraging someone else's suicide without providing the means or physically participating in the death.
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