Michelle Carter's lawyers have filed an emergency motion, asking the state Supreme Judicial Court to continue to delay the beginning of her prison sentence.
A judge in Taunton Trial Court will hear a request from the Bristol County District Attorney's Office to have 22-year-old Michelle Carter's stay of sentence revoked.
A prosecutors' office says it will ask the trial court to impose the jail sentence for a woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed the manslaughter conviction of Michelle Carter, who coerced her boyfriend via text messages to commit suicide.
The highest court in Massachusetts is considering an appeal from the woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for using text messages to urge her boyfriend to kill himself.
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...