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Prosecution implies Michelle Carter was linked to another man after boyfriend’s suicide
Closing arguments are over, and a verdict will be announced soon
Michelle Carter is currently on trial, accused of persuading her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself via text in 2014. Prosecutors allege she engaged in a “sick game of life and death,” triggering the 18-year-old boy’s suicide. Read the texts she sent him here.
In today’s closing statements, the defense’s argument centered around the distance between the two, and her alleged inability to physically force him to do anything, while the prosecution’s centered around her “desire for attention and feeling of being trapped,” after she’d “promised friends he was missing.”
“She was running out of time,” the prosecution claimed today. “She had already told her friend he was missing, and her friend, specifically Sam, didn’t like when she lied.”
The prosecution also introduced another boy, Mason, into the picture, claiming he texted her almost immediately after Roy’s death, asking if she was available. She said, “No, I think my friend just committed suicide.” The prosecution argued he was a romantic interest, because to everyone else Roy was “the love of her life,” and to Mason, he was a “friend.”
The defense claim Roy knew and understood exactly what he was doing. “We’re not dealing with someone who didn’t have the mental capacity to understand,” Joseph Cataldo argued in his closing statement.
He claimed Carter could not inflict any of this onto Roy, because she wasn’t there with him. “He was suicidal long before Michelle came along.”
“He tried to drown himself, overdose, ‘I already tried’ with water intoxication,” the defense said he texted her. “Without any encouragement in the past, he still went ahead and did it,” they said.
He had told her in previous texts, there was nothing anyone could do that would make him want to live. “She told him to go to the hospital,” the defense says, “but she was becoming overwhelmed.”
Prosecution argued she didn’t tell her mother, but she told anyone else who would listen, and posted on her Facebook she was the “only one who knew the cause of his death.” Prosecution alleged she wanted people to come to her for that information.
The judge will take time to consider closing arguments, and will announce when he has come to a verdict.
babe will be following the case with further updates on the trial.