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Mass. Supreme Court upholds manslaughter conviction for texts encouraging suicide.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:20 pm
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Girl is definitely evil, but that's not manslaughter if you ask me.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts’ top court on Wednesday upheld the manslaughter conviction of a woman accused of goading her teenage boyfriend into committing suicide in 2014 with text messages and phone calls, in a case that drew national attention to cyber-bullying.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court agreed with a lower court’s 2017 ruling on Michelle Carter, who prosecutors said urged her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy, to kill himself in a parking lot about 60 miles (100 km) south of Boston.
The case, the first in the state to consider manslaughter charges tied to texting, raised concerns among civil liberties advocates who said Carter was being prosecuted for her speech.
But Justice Scott Kafker said the evidence supported a finding that Carter, then 17, “badgered” Roy by phone to get back into a carbon-monoxide filled truck he had stepped out of, after “constantly pressuring” him in text messages to commit suicide.
Girl is definitely evil, but that's not manslaughter if you ask me.
This post was edited on 2/6/19 at 1:21 pm
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Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:21 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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Girl is definitely evil, but that's not manslaughter if you ask me.
They asked the judge, not you.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:22 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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Girl is definitely evil, but that's not manslaughter if you ask me.
I agree, I feel like this is a slippery slope.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:23 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
This girl is a psychopath.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:25 pm to Dawgholio
looks like someone lassoed her face in photoshop and condensed it to 60%
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:25 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
If you read the opinion, the manslaughter conviction is well supported and logically supported at least under MA law. And I am in agreement if you ask me.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:26 pm to LNCHBOX
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I agree, I feel like this is a slippery slope
I guess I can't use the "if your friends told you to jump off a bridge, would you" line on my future kids. Kid might say yes.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:28 pm to Dawgholio
I'd hit it.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:30 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Good. That little bitch needs to be locked up.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:33 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Does encouraging someone to kill themselves carry a harsher sentence than actually killing someone yourself?
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:34 pm to East Coast Band
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Does encouraging someone to kill themselves carry a harsher sentence than actually killing someone yourself?
She was convicted of manslaughter so I would assume no.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:35 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Less a slippery slope, maliciously provoking the mentally ill into self-harm/harming others is pretty much yelling "Fire!" in a movie theater for shits and giggles. It's too bad they couldn't charge her for more. Glad they had the evidence for manslaughter.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:36 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Good call imo
Those texts were sickening
Those texts were sickening
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:37 pm to Carson123987
She’s got a syndrome for sure.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:38 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Good. Some crazy manipulative people out there that need to be punished. Stop the "walking away" cause dey axually dindu nuffin
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:39 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Manslaughter should be worse than Murder
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:39 pm to MrSmith65
Absolutely
Her and Casey Anthony together. I could die a happy man
Her and Casey Anthony together. I could die a happy man
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:50 pm to TH03
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They asked the judge, not you.
And a jury apparently.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:59 pm to Ancient Astronaut
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She’s got a syndrome for sure.
Her forehead and eyebrows kinda screams of incest to me.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 2:03 pm to go ta hell ole miss
True, but I was talking about the 7 justices. 
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