Crime

Supreme Court won’t hear Michelle Carter case

Michelle Carter, center, arrives for a parole hearing on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 in Natick, Mass. Carter has served seven months of a 15-month jail term for urging her suicidal boyfriend Conrad Roy III via text messages to take his own life, after she was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Steven Senne / AP, File

By The Boston Globe

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The US Supreme Court has denied a request from lawyers for Michelle Carter to have the court review her involuntary manslaughter conviction stemming from the suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III.

On Monday, Carter’s case was among several on the court’s website listed under the heading “Certiorari Denied.”

Carter was 17 when she urged Roy, a Mattapoisett resident, to kill himself in July 2014 — even after he told her he was too scared to go through with it. After a bench trial that drew national headlines, Judge Lawrence Moniz in June 2017 found Carter, of Plainville, guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

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