Posted on 01/23/2020 12:30:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for persuading her boyfriend to kill himself, was released from prison Thursday, months ahead of schedule due to good behavior.
Carter, now 23, began serving a 15-month sentence in February, but she earned time off her sentence for good behavior, according to Jonathan Darling, spokesman at the Bristol County Sheriff's Office.
She left the Bristol County House of Correction at about 9:30 a.m., video from CNN affiliate WHDH shows. Wearing a black turtleneck, a light blazer and black pants -- the same outfit she wore the day she was sentenced -- Carter walked off prison grounds surrounded by guards and got into a waiting SUV.
Carter's release ends a saga that began when Conrad Roy III, 18, killed himself in July 2014. Investigators discovered scores of text messages from Carter in which she, according to prosecutors, berated Roy and encouraged him to go through with the suicide, even after he expressed hesitation.
"I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you're ready, you just need to do it! You can't keep living this way," she wrote in one exchange.
Carter listened over the phone as Conrad Roy suffocated from carbon monoxide inhalation in his pickup truck, and they said she did not tell his parents or authorities when he died. Her defense attorneys said that Carter was a troubled and delusional young woman and that Roy had long been intent on killing himself.
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Callousness is not a crime. Holding her criminally responsible for this death is asinine. Horrible people have the same constitutional rights as everyone else. If this was a disturbed, but not suicidal person and she raised the idea as an option, I could see holding her responsible. I highly doubt the facts of the case bear that out.
Pretty much how I see it.
Well, if the only thing I have to worry about is her trying to convince me to off myself, she’s harmless. :)
Upon reflection, suicide is a crime. Sort of hard to punish the criminal, but collaboration to commit a crime is also a crime. But on the other hand, we’re also dealing with a minor. Hard to know what to do.
Perhaps he lashed out at you quickly because you so willingly exposed yourself as a vile POS? I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Watching Schiff, ready to jump.
In our society, she’ll probably get her own show on TruTV...
Maybe she can be roommates with murderess Amanda Knox.
Let me guess: You’re also one of those fun-at-parties types, who quite firmly believes that depression doesn’t exist, either, aren’t you?
I’ve heard the spiel so many times: “Depression is just as real as The Vapours! ‘Depression’ is just another word for ‘selfish’, ‘lazy’, ‘cowardly’ and ‘immature’?”
“Your quick lash out it me is troubling, though. It was not justified.”
One would think that you would take that in stride with your attitude of it being strictly okay for one person to goad another person into suicide.
Isn’t that offense you took a little hypocritical?
Maybe, but most people would tell him to walk away and take his drama somewhere else. She egged him on. I'm not sure about jail, but I am interested in which quadrant of the "hot/crazy matrix" graph she should be placed.
Narcissists cause a lot of people to commit suicide...are they liable?...hell fn yes imo....
Psycho eyes. She’s on the wrong side of the danger line in the hot-crazy matrix.
Yes he did this to himself but he was mentally ill. I just can’t understand her not calling the Law or SOMEONE to get him help. Makes no sense to me that she would encourage him to jump off a cliff rather that get him help. Most good Christian people would get help.
but collaboration to commit a crime is also a crime...
However, I’ve not read the texts. If she was actually giving him specific advice on how to actually carry it out, then yeah, That crosses a line. And I don’t mean stuff like “you should shoot yourself”. I mean stuff like, Here’s where to get the gun, here’s the best caliber to use, and where you should point it, etc.
Perhaps he lashed out at you quickly because you so willingly exposed yourself as a vile POS? I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
One difference between the two of you and me are that only one of us seems to try to get to know a person before they lash out. It’s quite possible that all three of us are very nice people and, once we discuss a topic like this at length, may actually agree on most of it.
But I’ll withhold judgement on your character until I actually get to know you. :)
BTW, not to put too fine a point on it, but I went to a class called “The role of the man in the family” and one thing the teacher said was that if we buy tapes of the meetings, we probably should not share them with our wives because they will think he’s a jerk. And he went on to say that the “role of the woman in the family” class contains basically the same information, but he says it in a way women like to hear information, while the men’s class is said in a way that men like to hear information.
He went on to say that one woman, after the women’s class, confessed that she thought he was a jerk and a$$hole after listening to her husband’s tapes but found out, after the women’s class, that he was a very nice guy.
All of my posts are from a man’s point of view to a man’s point of view. I often get in trouble with women on the internet. In real life, I see that I’m talking to women and I adjust the class content accordingly. :)
Let me guess: You’re also one of those fun-at-parties types, who quite firmly believes that depression doesn’t exist, either, aren’t you?
I’ve heard the spiel so many times: “Depression is just as real as The Vapours! ‘Depression’ is just another word for ‘selfish’, ‘lazy’, ‘cowardly’ and ‘immature’?”
However, I believe everyone is responsible for their own actions. Period. As a Christian I also believe that this world is very much like The Matrix or one of those reality video games. It is ridiculously temporary. We each play the hand we are given and thank the Lord for his eternal promise. It all has a purpose. I learned a great deal many decades ago when I read the story of Joni:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Eareckson_Tada
One would think that you would take that in stride with your attitude of it being strictly okay for one person to goad another person into suicide.
For decades I’ve said this: Just because it’s legal, doesn’t mean it’s moral. And just because it’s illegal, doesn’t mean it’s immoral.
I don’t think adult movies are moral. But I don’t think they should be illegal. Meanwhile, I don’t think it’s immoral to buy and sell beer, but it is illegal in my county.
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