NATICK, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts woman sentenced to 15 months in jail for urging her suicidal boyfriend via text messages to take his own life is asking for early release.
Michelle Carter is scheduled to appear before the state Parole Board on Thursday after serving seven months.
Carter was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III. The 22-year-old woman, who was 17 at the time of Roy's death, began her sentence in February.
Roy killed himself by filling his pickup truck with carbon monoxide in a Fairhaven, Massachusetts, parking lot. When he had second thoughts, Carter texted him to "get back in" the truck.
Carter's attorneys argued that her texts were constitutionally protected free speech. Her conviction has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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