fox43.com/2020/01/23/michelle-carter-convicted-in-texting-suicide-case-is-set-to-leave-prison-today

Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for persuading her boyfriend to kill himself, is expected to be released from prison Thursday, months ahead of schedule due to good behavior.

Carter, now 23, began serving a 15-month sentence in February, but she earned enough time off her sentence for good behavior that she will be released Thursday, according to Jonathan Darling, spokesman at the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office.

“Ms. Carter has been a model inmate here at the Bristol County House of Corrections. She has participated in a variety of programs, held a job inside the jail, has been polite to our staff and volunteers, has gotten along with the other inmates, and we’ve had no discipline issues with her whatsoever,” Darling said.

Carter’s expected release ends a saga that began when Conrad Roy III, 18, killed himself in July 2014. Investigators discovered scores of text messages from Carter in which she, according to prosecutors, berated Roy and encouraged him to go through with the suicide, even after he expressed hesitation.

“I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it! You can’t keep living this way,” she wrote in one exchange.

The case drew widespread attention for its focus on teenage suicide, digital romance, and the legal gray area of whether someone can be convicted for another person’s suicide.

At her trial, prosecutors said Carter listened over the phone as he suffocated from carbon monoxide inhalation in his pickup truck, and they said she did not tell his parents or authorities when he died. Her defense attorneys said that Carter was a troubled and delusional young woman and that Roy had long been intent on killing himself.

“The evidence actually established that Conrad Roy caused his own death by his physical actions and by his own thoughts,” defense attorney Joseph Cataldo said. “You’re dealing with an individual who wanted to take his own life. … He dragged Michelle Carter into this.”

Carter was tried as a juvenile and found guilty in 2017. Her attorneys appealed the conviction and argued that her texts and words were a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.

But a Massachusetts appeals court rejected those arguments, saying she “helped plan how, where, and when” her boyfriend would kill himself, “downplayed his fears about how his suicide would affect his family” and “repeatedly chastised him for his indecision,” the judges found.

Last week, the US Supreme Court said it would not take up her case for review.

The legal system failed

I’ve always been conflicted abt this case

Elaborate

Same. She should’ve never went to jail

I think it could end up being a slippery slope jailing people for texts they sent

I understand the boyfriend was in a fragile mental state and all that but I think it sets a dangerous legal precedent

I have to imagine the girl herself prolly has some sort of issues and that jail maybe wasn't the right option to begin with

If i remember correctly she wanted to use her boyfriends suicide for attention n sympathy

Yeah, but it's obvious that him killing himself is what she wanted to happen and she did everything she did to cause that. Also, she did listen as he killed himself and didn't notify the authorities or anything. It's complicated though.

Talk about white privledge lmao. And being kinda hot

Whew boy, the amount of grey area that this type of scenario presents...

Yikes

If this is the same story, I think I remember this

Does this even count as freedom of speech? I'm pretty sure freedom of speech is about the expression of opinions, not just saying whatever you want

I mean f*** her for being a piece of s***, obviously. I believe she instructed him via text to get back in the garage filling up with carbon monoxide.

I just hope lines don’t become blurred further and any texts/online posts of “kill yourself” or whatever can be used in courts

then again i’m completely ignorant to the gritty details of the case so idk

is this real lmao

Unfortunately. She pestered him daily asking why he was still alive.

You realize you can already be charged if you tell someone to kill themself online and they actually do it right?

Yeah man god forbid we start punishing people for telling others to take their life.

They weren’t hard enough on her.

Real for kossisko/ 100s

Edit: lol I feel like. I told you the same on ktt1 if you the same nigga

and another problem was that many of the most impassioned responses to this case i saw online were clearly tinged with misogynist loser language

again,

the woman sucks and what she did was bad,

but posts online should in many cases not be taken seriously or leave you legally libel

She's too beautiful

Fr if she told me to kms I might consider it

her pre-jail look was fire

RIP the homie but why was he dating 2014 Bieber