BOSTON — Rejecting arguments that her comments were protected free speech, the state's high court upheld Michelle Carter's involuntary manslaughter conviction for encouraging her boyfriend to take his own life. Carter, 22, of Plainville was convicted in June 2017 in the texting suicide case where her boyfriend, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III of Mattapoisett, killed himself. Carter was 17 and a juvenile at the time. [...]
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