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Michelle Carter, teen in texting suicide case, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter
Circa.com ^ | June 16, 2017 | Circa News

Posted on 06/16/2017 8:47:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A juvenile court judge announced a guilty verdict in the trial of Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter who was charged with manslaughter for sending her suicidal boyfriend Conrad Roy III a barrage of text messages encouraging him to kill himself.

Judge Lawrence Moniz announced his decision Friday in Bristol Juvenile Court.

(Excerpt) Read more at circa.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: influence; michellecarter; psychology; sociopath; suicide; teens
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1 posted on 06/16/2017 8:47:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So can we go after the Liberal Media?????

They are encouraging us to suicide, in many forms.


2 posted on 06/16/2017 8:50:09 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: Scrambler Bob

So can we go after the Liberal Media?????

They are encouraging us to suicide, in many forms.
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Exactly.


3 posted on 06/16/2017 8:53:38 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: Scrambler Bob

“So can we go after the Liberal Media?????

They are encouraging us to suicide, in many forms.”

They’re promoting and encouraging sedition, open and violent rebellion. Lock every damn one of them up for treason...and then ship them to North Korea so they can be in their paradise and bliss.


4 posted on 06/16/2017 8:56:00 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am disappointed about the verdict.


5 posted on 06/16/2017 8:59:17 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I feel bad for the boy. SMH. If only he had taken the Red Pill.

My oldest son would never do that, at least because of a gf. He’s taken the Red Pill, and doesn’t require validation from girlfriends or wives.


6 posted on 06/16/2017 9:02:56 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So how long before this law if it is one spreads to all forms of communication? Does this mean that telling someone to FOAD on a comment or tweet is now a felony ?


7 posted on 06/16/2017 9:03:13 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: baltimorepoet

>>My oldest son would never do that, at least because of
>>a gf. He’s taken the Red Pill, and doesn’t
>>require validation from girlfriends or wives.

How’s he planning on passing your genome along then?


8 posted on 06/16/2017 9:09:16 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ridiculous...Should have used the Hypnotize Defense

Can't get someone to do something that they wouldn't do on their own.

9 posted on 06/16/2017 9:14:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: redcatcherb412

>>Does this mean that telling someone to FOAD
>>on a comment or tweet is now a felony ?

FOAD and ESAD are double ententes.

Per the lesser known meaning - they are warnings that if you do, you will.

Seems folks who RTFM are less likely succumb.

We have a culture who think Reading the Manual for the Species is passe - and, as a result, think changing/checking the oil isn’t necessary until the dashboard oil light comes on.

Oops!


10 posted on 06/16/2017 9:16:20 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: NEMDF
I am disappointed about the verdict.

I'm not - she is evil. She gambled that a Judge would give her a better chance than a jury and lost. He enumerated the extenuating circumstances that applied.

11 posted on 06/16/2017 9:18:24 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: NEMDF
Tough call, but a good one. Law is a blunt social tool that aims to draw a line at "prohibited conduct." That's hard to do with generic words in statutes.

This chick not only urged this vulnerable young man to cmmitt suicide, she was on the phone with him when he was gassing himself, and ehn he got out of the truck, she ordered him back in. Depraved indifference to human life.

No doubt this will get appealed, and be an interesting case in the long run. But one question that is worth asking, ouside of the framework of the statutory language, is whther society should allow the sort of conduct she engaged in, to go unpunished by the law.

12 posted on 06/16/2017 9:18:49 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: redcatcherb412

Read the texts here and see if FOAD is the same as what she did.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3216161/Try-bag-hanging-s-never-text-messages-reveal-honor-student-encouraged-boyfriend-kill-cooly-contacted-family-ask-knew-was.html


13 posted on 06/16/2017 9:22:42 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This happened in Mass, soon it will be extended to legal gun dealers.


14 posted on 06/16/2017 9:29:27 AM PDT by Sparky1776
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To: Cboldt
But one question that is worth asking, outside of the framework of the statutory language, is whether society should allow the sort of conduct she engaged in, to go unpunished by the law.

One problem I have is that if the Boy had not taken his life, then her words would not have been criminal. She was a jerk, certainly, but if he had ignored her, she wouldn't be guilty of anything -- it's not illegal to be a jerk.

But he DID take his own life, which then caused her words to be actionable because, in hindsight, she really was more than just a jerk. But it was his action that turned the whole thing into something worthy of a trial and guilty verdict. So is this really his fault?

15 posted on 06/16/2017 9:37:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: HLPhat

// How’s he planning on passing your genome along then? //

I don’t care about genome. In a few billion years the Earth will be a lifeless husk and all the genomes that survived will get their booby-prize: death. A few billion after that, and the entrophy heat-death of the universe.

If he decides to have any kids, he can hire a surrogate, and I can be daycare during my retirement. I was a stay-at-home dad once for 4 years.

Surrogacy is less costly, both financially and emotionally than a divorce.

Signing a modern marriage contract doesn’t pass a cost-benefit analysis.


16 posted on 06/16/2017 9:40:36 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: trebb

She is truly evil. She is a murderer who did not physically want to do it, but made sure she got it done. Are hope she serves every second of twenty years. And that some big women in prison glom onto her.


17 posted on 06/16/2017 9:45:08 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
-- One problem I have is that if the Boy had not taken his life, then her words would not have been criminal. --

Sometimes reckless endangerment (driving on a sidewalk) turns into manslaughter, with the difference being just because somebody was killed.

I don't have a problem with allowing the speech up to the point it works.

I also see it as a marginal legal decision, by "marginal" I mean it affects conduct of a small number of people. Not many people try to talk others into suicide over an extended period. Those who are doing that, are free to continue, and have no legal jeopardy -- until it works.

18 posted on 06/16/2017 9:46:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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>>I can be daycare during my retirement. I was a stay-at-home dad once for 4 years.

Planning on modeling the behavior of both Mother and Father are ya?

Shucks. Billions of years of binary sexual evolution down the drain!


19 posted on 06/16/2017 9:47:46 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Cboldt

I saw this on Law &I Order once.


20 posted on 06/16/2017 9:50:02 AM PDT by sheana
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