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COMMONWEALTH v. CARTER

No. SJC-12043.

474 Mass. 624 (2016)

COMMONWEALTH, v. MICHELLE CARTER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 1, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan ( Joseph P. Cataldo with him) for the defendant.

Shoshana E. Stern , Assistant District Attorney ( Katie Cook Rayburn , Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Eva G. Jellison & David J. Nathanson , for Youth Advocacy Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

On February 6, 2015, the defendant, Michelle Carter, was indicted as a youthful offender under G. L. c. 119, § 54, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter after she, at the age of seventeen, encouraged Conrad Roy (the victim), then eighteen years of age, to commit suicide. To indict a juvenile...

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