The Bristol County DA's Office says 22-year-old Michelle Carter’s request to remain free while her attorneys appeal her manslaughter conviction has been denied.
Phil welcomes Conrad Roy, Jr., whose son Conrad Roy III committed suicide in 2014, leading to the highly-publicized trial of the younger Roy's girlfriend, Michelle Carter.
Now, the elder Roy is looking to raise awareness for suicide and help in the battle against by running the Boston Marathon...
BOSTON (AP) _ A young Massachusetts woman who as a teenager sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself before he did so has asked the state's highest court to overturn her involuntary manslaughter conviction.
Michelle Carter's lawyers say in the Feb...
A psychiatrist who testified on behalf of a teenager who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself via text message has been ordered by a Massachusetts judge to stop blogging about details from the victim's confidential medical records.
DEDHAM — The mother of a teenager who killed himself has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Massachusetts woman convicted of manslaughter for encouraging him to take his own life.
Lynn Roy is seeking $4.2 million in lost future wages for her son Conrad Roy III...
TAUNTON — The Massachusetts woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for urging her boyfriend to kill himself is being sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, with part of that time being suspended.
Judge Lawrence Moniz sentenced Michelle Carter to the two-and-a-half year sentence, with 15 months deemed a committed sentence at the Bristol County House of Corrections, and the balance suspen
BOSTON (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union has denounced as unconstitutional the manslaughter conviction of a woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself.
The ACLU's Massachusetts chapter says in a statement that the conviction "exceeds the limits of our criminal laws and violates free speech protections guaranteed by the Massachusetts and
Massachusetts law is today muddier than the Charles River. Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz has ruled that Michelle Carter is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III. Roy smoked himself in a cloudy pool of carbon monoxide on the evening of July 13, 2014
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Time and again the Defense representing Michelle Carter has pleaded there's no real case against his client. Now, a recent bombshell raises huge questions on the timing of the last text message and Conrad Roy's eventual suicide. Meanwhile, the Bristol County District Attorney's office is pressing forward...
There's a young woman slated to go on trial. Michelle Carter is accused of manslaughter. Her friend Conrad Roy III committed suicide, carbon monoxide poisoning. He inhaled the fumes in his sealed vehicle.
Carter isn't the nicest person, but according to Massachusetts law she is no criminal...