Her sentence was suspended while the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts considered an appeal, but on Wednesday the court found that Michelle Carter caused Conrad Roy III’s suicide in July 2014, as The Boston Globe reports. The punishment…
Her sentence was suspended while the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts considered an appeal, but on Wednesday the court found that Michelle Carter caused Conrad Roy III’s suicide in July 2014, as The Boston Globe reports. The punishment stands, and Carter will spend 15 months in prison.
Carter’s lawyers had argued that her calls and texts to her boyfriend in 2014 encouraging his suicide were protected forms of free speech, but the court unanimously disagreed.
» The evidence was sufficient to support the judge’s finding of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed involuntary manslaughter as a youthful offender, and that the other legal issues presented by the defendant, including her First Amendment claim, lack merit,» the ruling reads. «We therefore affirm.»
Carter was 17 when Roy died by suicide and was listening on the phone while it happened.
