Supreme Court declines to hear the appeal of Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter after urging her teenage boyfriend over text message to kill himself. Carter will remain behind bars, serving a 15-month sentence.
January 13, 2020, 4:32 PMMichelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017.The Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts womanCarter will remain behind bars, serving aIn her petition to the Supreme Court, Carter argued that her conviction based on her words alone was a violation of the First Amendment.
Michelle Carter, 22, appears in Taunton District Court in Taunton, Mass. Feb. 11, 2019, for a hearing on her prison sentence. Michelle Carter, 22, appears in Taunton District Court in Taunton, Mass. Feb. 11, 2019, for a hearing on her prison sentence."The trial judge’s verdict and the [state supreme court] affirmance leave no doubt that Carter was convicted for her words alone -- what she said and failed to say to Roy. Carter neither provided Roy with the means of his death nor physically participated in his suicide," her lawyers told the court.
Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 after her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, died of carbon monoxide poisoning from locking himself in his truck in Massachusetts in 2014.by telling him over the phone to get back in his truck even though they say he didn't want to die.In this Sept. 19, 2019, file photo, Michelle Carter is escorted to a parole hearing in Natick, Mass.
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