03 August, 2017
Michelle Carter, the Plainville woman found guilty of involuntary manslaughter when she encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in 2014, will be sentenced this Thursday.
"Take away the spotlight that she so desperately craves", Bozzi said in a prepared statement she planned to read at Carter's hearing, given exclusively to the Boston Herald Wednesday.
"Twenty years may seem extreme but it is still 20 more than Conrad will ever have", Bozzi wrote in her statement, provided to the Herald.
A judge found the 20-year-old Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter on June 16, ruling that pressuring someone into suicide can be considered manslaughter in MA.
A MA woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas faces up to 20 years in prison when a judge sentences her on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
"Get back in", Carter told Roy, according to a friend who testified Carter described the conversation in a text message to her about a month after Roy died. Carter's lawyers had argued that she was involuntarily intoxicated by medication while messaging Roy and not in full control of her actions.
Carter could face up to 20 years in prison. "He trusted her, which in turn, cost him his life".
Carter's sentencing is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.at Taunton Juvenile Court. Carter's father, however, said he was prepared to plead for a far more lenient sentence.
Both Roy and Carter had suffered emotional problems. "I ask of you to invoke leniency in your decision-making process for my loving child Michelle".
