Lawyer wants manslaughter case put on hold in teen's suicide

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Lawyer wants manslaughter case put on hold in teen's suicide
Updated 2:03 pm, Tuesday, February 2, 2016

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A lawyer for a Massachusetts teen charged with manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself asked a judge Tuesday to put the case on hold until the state's highest court decides her appeal.

Joseph Cataldo, a lawyer for Michelle Carter, argued Tuesday that the criminal case against Carter shouldn't move forward until the Supreme Judicial Court decides on an appeal of a judge's refusal to dismiss the manslaughter charge.

Prosecutors argued the case should move forward while the appeal is pending.

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Carter, then 17, is accused of sending 18-year-old Conrad Roy III dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life. Roy's body was found in his pickup truck in Fairhaven on July 13, 2014. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning.



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1. I have a lot things to say about this young lady... and none of them are nice.

She KNEW what she was doing was wrong, and possibly illegal. Handsome, troubled young man. Evil-hearted little...