A woman who sent a barrage of text messages urging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself is appealing her conviction to the Supreme Court.
FILE -- In this Aug. 3, 2017 file photo Michelle Carter, center, listens to her sentencing for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July of 2014. Her defense attorney Joseph Cataldo stands at left. Lawyers for Carter have appealed her involuntary manslaughter conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Michelle Carter did not cause Conrad Roy’s tragic death and should not be held criminally responsible for his suicide,” Daniel Marx, one of her lawyers, said in emailed statement. “This petition focuses on just two of the many flaws in the case against her that raise important federal constitutional issues for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide,” he said.after Massachusetts’ highest court unanimously upheld her conviction in the death of the then-18-year-old Roy.
Carter’s lawyers say that’s not enough evidence to prove Carter did that. They also argue there is no evidence he would have lived if she had called for help or that Roy would have listened to her if she had told him to get out of the truck. Therefore, nothing “would prevent such aggressive prosecutions in all assisted or encouraged suicide cases,” the lawyers wrote.
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