Romeo and Juliet

[Secular Sanity]

When I first heard about this case from a friend, I thought that it was someone that was just fed up with another person using suicide threats as a manipulation tactic, but it sounds like she was convincing him to do it.

How to do you guys feel about this?  Should she be convicted of involuntary manslaughter?
 
She’s Accused of Texting Him to Suicide. Is That Enough to Convict?

Robert Cordy, a Supreme Judicial Court Justice, acknowledged that Ms. Carter’s case was the first involuntary manslaughter indictment the court had considered “on the basis of words alone.”

But the circumstances in this case may have meant that Ms. Carter’s final communication with Mr. Roy carried “more weight than mere words, overcoming any independent will to live he might have had.”

Many states have laws criminalizing the encouragement or abetting of a suicide, but cases like Ms. Carter’s are fairly unusual, legal experts said.
Some similar cases have involved less serious charges than manslaughter, but even then, convictions are not assured.

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With the suicide plan in motion, Mr. Roy at one point got out of the car, apparently feeling fear, the prosecutor said. But in a phone call, Ms. Carter “ordered him back in and then listened for 20 minutes as he cried in pain, took his last breath, and then died,” Ms. Flynn said. Prosecutors say Ms. Carter was driven by a hunger for attention from her peers in Plainville, Mass. She got attention when she talked about her suicidal boyfriend, Ms. Flynn said, and risked that her peers would think she was lying if he did not follow through. “She used Conrad as a pawn in her sick game of life and death,” Ms. Flynn said.

If the above is true, then I'd personally deem "involuntary manslaughter" apt or minimally sufficient. But would depend upon prosecution actually having the evidence for it rather than merely projecting a speculation or hypothesis of that ilk upon her.

[Secular Sanity]

If the above is true, then I'd personally deem "involuntary manslaughter" apt or minimally sufficient. But would depend upon prosecution actually having the evidence for it rather than merely projecting a speculation or hypothesis of that ilk upon her.

She was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

[confused2]

Worth a Darwin Award though.

See (for example) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...idity.html

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"Some men are busying themselves doing really clever stuff and some men are busying themselves doing really stupid stuff. Speaking as a bloke, I can confirm that telling the difference in the heat of the moment can be a challenge at times."