Posted on 07/02/2016 9:13:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
But instead of trying to stop her teenage boyfriend from taking his life, prosecutors in Massachusetts believe that Carter pressured Conrad Roy III to go through with the act.
And on Friday, the states highest court ruled that she could go to trial for her alleged role in his death.
I hope they hold her accountable for her actions, Roys grandfather, Conrad Roy Sr., told the Boston Globe. She told him to get back in the truck. She prodded him on. All of the text messages are pretty much self-explanatory.
The Supreme Judicial Courts ruling which found that a grand jury was justified in returning an indictment in Carters case was unanimous, the Associated Press reported. Justice Robert Cordy wrote:
We conclude that, on the evidence presented to the grand jury, the verbal conduct at issue was sufficient and, because a conviction of involuntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in State prison and inherently involves the infliction of serious bodily harm, the grand jury properly returned an indictment under the youthful offender statute.
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You did not answer my questions-which is typical of today's mentality as everyone wants to get their points "out there."
The Supreme Court unanimously voted she could be prosecuted. Have you read the decision?
There is no case law concerning conspiracy over suicide, but conspiring to commit homicide would the statute I would stand on. Suicide is a form of homicide, and even though it is not an illegal form of homicide, conspiring would be the crime.
And that is without the prosecution being able to show diminished mental capacity of the victim and the conspirator having undue influence of his actions, which the prosecutor believes he has the ability to do. That is why she is being charged with manslaughter.
Well, she’ll do some time in the cooler for it now. She just got convicted. Maybe it’ll set her mind right. I really doubt it though.
She won’t change, she’s the sociopath that some on this thread have guessed her to be.
At one point the boy got out of the car and told her he was scared. She told him to get back in the car, which he did.(it was a carbon monoxide suicide for those unfamiliar with how he died).
So she could have told him to stay out of the car. She could have notified the police that he was trying to kill himself. Instead she goaded him to finish it.
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