Prosecutors say former Boston College student Inyoung You drove her boyfriend Alexander Urtula to kill himself in a toxic relationship that included thousands of abusive text messages. The lawyers also argued there was simply not enough evidence to prove Carter urged Roy to get back in his truck to die, or that he would have lived if she had called for help or taken other actions to try and save his life.Ī case strongly echoing Carter's, meanwhile, is playing out in a Boston court. RELATED: Woman who encouraged suicidal boyfriend to take his own life appeals to Supreme Court
Both teens struggled with depression, and Roy had made earlier suicide attempts.Ĭarter's lawyers argued in their Supreme Court appeal that the conviction should be thrown out because it was an “unprecedented” violation of their client's First Amendment rights that suggested “words alone” are enough to hold someone responsible for another person’s suicide. A Massachusetts Juvenile Court Has Found 20-year-old Michelle Carter Guilty Of Involuntary Manslaughter In Her Texting Suicide Case For Sending Then-boyfriend Conrad Roy III, 18, Multiple Text. Their relationship consisted mainly of texting and other electronic communications. “After she convinced him to get back into the carbon monoxide filled truck, she did absolutely nothing to help him: she did not call for help or tell him to get out of the truck as she listened to him choke and die,” Justice Scott Kafker wrote in the state Supreme Judicial Court's decision.Ĭarter and Roy both lived in Massachusetts but met in Florida in 2012 while both were on vacation with their families. The state's highest court upheld Carter's conviction () last February and she was ordered to begin serving her jail sentence. Michelle Carter was convicted of manslaughter for urging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in 2014. While the couple lived about an hour away from each other, the two teenagers only met in person a. Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy always had a peculiar relationship. About three years later, she was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter.
She also didn't testify in her defense at the trial. In 2014, Michelle Carter texted her boyfriend Conrad Roy to kill himself just before his suicide. In text messages sent in the days leading up to Roy's death, Carter also encouraged him to follow through with his suicide plan and chastised him when he didn't.Ĭarter opted for a bench trial, an unusual legal strategy that meant a judge decided her fate rather than a jury. The phone call wasn't recorded, but the judge relied on a text Carter sent her friend in which she said she told Roy to get back in. It also sparked legislative proposals in Massachusetts to criminalize suicide coercion.Ī Massachusetts judge determined Carter, who was 17 at the time, caused the death of the 18-year-old Roy when she ordered him in a phone call to get back into his parked truck, which he'd rigged to fill up with deadly carbon monoxide.
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"So there's a whole portion that we kind of had to create, and a whole side of Michelle that wasn't on our TV screens, or it wasn't something that we saw, so we had to understand her in a different way.RELATED: Michelle Carter, woman convicted in texting suicide case, to be released early from prison because of good behavior: officialsĬarter's case garnered national attention as it raised thorny legal questions about free speech and provided a disturbing look at teenage relationships and depression.
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The series explores Carter's relationship with Roy, the events that led to his death and her conviction of involuntary manslaughter.īut although Fanning, and her co-star Colton Ryan who stars as Roy, had access to the messages and court tapings on YouTube, she explained that they didn't give them "all the answers, necessarily." The Girl From Plainville is inspired by the true story of Carter's unprecedented "texting-suicide" case and is based on the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron. "At least the relationship that they had over text." She began to conspire with him by text, encouraging different methods to plan his death. "They were helpful in getting to know their relationship," Fanning told Entertainment Weeklyof Carter and boyfriend Conrad Roy III, who died by suicide in 2015 after receiving a series of messages from Carter that encouraged him to take his own life. Carter initially dissuaded Roy from suicide on multiple occasions, but the messages took a turn in June 2014. Elle Fanninghad access to all of those text messages.Īnd according to the 23-year-old actress, they were "haunting and difficult to get through." But how did they affect her portrayal of Michelle Carter in Hulu's The Girl From Plainville?
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