On Thursday, August 3, the court issued a verdict in the case of Michelle Carterin June of this year, was found guilty of the manslaughter of her boyfriend. The girl will serve his sentence in prison little more than a year, a fraction of those numbers that was predicted initially.
Recall that in July 2014, living in Massachusetts 18-year-old Conrad Roy III committed suicide, poisoned by carbon monoxide inside the cab of the truck. All this time, while he was sitting in the car, he corresponded with Carter, which at that time was 17 years old.
The girl sent him a message in which he wrote that he was ready to suicide. Michelle asked Conrad to promise that he will deal with it.
“Just do it, baby,” “I don’t understand why you don’t do it” – these and similar phrases she wrote to Roy.
When the young man told her that he got out of the truck, Carter asked him to come back. That her boyfriend is in danger, she told nobody.
During the trial the judge Lawrence Moniz has ruled that the death of Roy Conrad happened through the fault of Michelle Carter.
Earlier it was reported that the girl can spend in prison for 20 years. But then prosecutors said that they would require the court to assign her a period of seven till fifteen years.
Joseph Cataldo, attorney Carter, insisted that when a girl pushed her boyfriend to commit suicide, she suffered from bulimia, anorexia , and depression.
He asked the court to spare his client from having to serve a prison sentence and instead to elect her mode of probation, i.e., probation under supervision.
Cataldo also asked to arrange for his client holding consultations on mental health.
After listening to the wishes of the parties the prosecution and the defence, judge Moniz agreed to a compromise, and sentenced to Michelle Carter for two and a half years of imprisonment. However, the girl will spend in prison only 15 months.
After an exit to freedom she will have to serve five years of probation.
However, the juvenile judge ruled that the girl began to serve his sentence only after the appeal process.
It turns out that if the appellate court decides that Carter is not guilty, she won’t spend «behind bars». Now she is on the loose, but under supervision.
