Carter had defended that text messages she sent encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself were protected by the First Amendment.
, the Massachusetts woman who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for relentlessly pressuring her then-boyfriend in text messages to kill himself.had argued that her actionsA series of text messages sent between the couple on the night Roy died showed Carter, then 17, repeatedly urging a suicidal Roy to kill himself by carbon monoxide poisoning in his truck, even after he told her he no longer wanted to go through with it.
“Instructing Mr. Roy to get back in the truck constituted wanton and reckless conduct,” a Bristol County Juvenile Court judge ruled in 2017.
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