Michelle Carter has been moved out of a Bristol County jail. But authorities say she’s still in custody.
The Bristol County Sheriff’s office did not say why—or where—the Plainfield woman was moved.
Michelle Carter, the Plainville woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 for repeatedly encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide, has been moved from a Bristol County jail but remains in custody, according to the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office.
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Jonathan Darling, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, did not provide a reason for the change or say when it occurred.
“Ms. Carter is still in custody of the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office but is not currently in a Bristol County corrections facility,” Darling said in an email to Boston.com. “We will not be providing details on her whereabouts or the circumstances.”
Carter’s attorney, Daniel Marx, declined to comment on the situation.
“We don’t have any comment,” Marx told Boston.com in an email. “For now, we are focused on trying to get the Supreme Court to vacate Michelle’s unprecedented conviction.”
In 2017, a judge found that Carter caused the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III in 2014 when she — then 17 years old — instructed him over the phone to get back into his truck as it was filling with poisonous gas in a Fairhaven parking lot. She began serving a 15-month jail sentence in February after the highest judicial body in Massachusetts upheld her conviction.
Carter’s attorneys filed a petition to the Supreme Court in early July arguing that her conviction violated her First Amendment right to free speech.
