Guilty as charged. She practically begged her boyfriend to commit suicide. She than reaped the benefits of becoming more popular by showing up at benefits and charity functions as "his girlfriend'.

She is sick and twisted and needs some time away.

She is definitely a sociopath. Just seems like quite a precedent.

Better not tell anyone to die in a fire anymore.

She is definitely a sociopath. Just seems like quite a precedent.

It's not really a precedent. The courts seem to have decided to treat electronic communication the same as older forms of communication. It was like if she had been in the next room talking to him.

Prosecutors had argued that Carter sent Roy numerous text messages urging him to commit suicide, listened over the phone as he suffocated, and failed to alert authorities or his family that he'd died. The judge agreed.

Eh.


"This court has found that Carter's actions and failure to act where it was her self-created duty to Roy since she put him in that toxic environment constituted reckless conduct," the judge said. "The court finds that the conduct caused the death of Mr. Roy."

I haven't seen the texts and don't know that I'd be that innerested in seeing them, but that seems like some dubious 'logic'.


Roy aspired to be a tugboat captain ...

Well now, that's a pretty clear indicator of him being non compos mentis, so maybe she can be faulted for leading him down that dark path after all.

My uninformed, knee-jerk reaction to this is I don't much care for this conviction. I also hate - like, as in vitriolic hate - the word 'toxic' ... so I'm therefore inclined to dislike the judge immensely for that alone.

Right, but if I tell you to kill yourself and you do, have I committed a crime? We're talking about the order, not the medium via which it was issued.

Right, but if I tell you to kill yourself and you do, have I committed a crime? We're talking about the order, not the medium via which it was issued.

Not sure about this, but dude was actively trying to kill himself and she did not alert proper authorities. Is that not some sort of crime?

I don't think it should be. There are many people who, if I saw them committing suicide, I would walk right past.

I don't think it should be. There are many people who, if I saw them committing suicide, I would walk right past.

I don't think it should be. There are many people who, if I saw them committing suicide, I would walk right past.

What she did was different than you telling a guy to go fuck himself. I think if you get a chance to read the texts you would agree.

Here are the messages

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fox25bosto ... /532942907

Not trying to be judgmental, but that makes you a pretty horrid person.

Shut up. People die every day and you don't do shit about it either.

There are a lot of people here who are fine basing legal rulings on emotions. If your response is "Yeah, but the texts were really bad...", that's not a logical argument. It's an emotional one, and it has no place inside a courtroom.

From what it looks like though she helped to exacerbate the situation even when it was clear he was a real danger to himself. That makes it different than just letting it happen.