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    Text Messages Urging Suicide Result In Involuntary Manslaughter Conviction

    Michelle Carter's defense attorney had maintained that the case was one of suicide, not homicide.
    by Bill Chappell Jun 16, 2017 1 minute
    Michelle Carter, at her trial earlier this week, had exchanged text messages about suicide with a friend who eventually killed himself. / Boston Globe / Getty Images

    A Massachusetts judge has found Michelle Carter, who was a teenager when prosecutors say she sent a fellow teenager text messages urging him to suicide, guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

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