COMMONWEALTH v. CARTER

No. SJC-12502.

481 Mass. 352 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHELLE CARTER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

February 6, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel N. Marx ( William W. Fick , Nancy Gertner , Joseph P. Cataldo , & Cornelius J. Madera, III , also present) for the defendant.

Shoshana E. Stern , Assistant District Attorney ( Maryclare Flynn , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Eva G. Jellison , for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Brian Hauss , of New York, Matthew R. Segal , & Ruth A. Bourquin , for American Civil Liberties Union & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


At age seventeen, Michelle Carter was charged with involuntary manslaughter as a youthful offender for the suicide death of Conrad Roy, age eighteen. In Commonwealth v. Carter, 474 Mass. 624 (2016) (Carter I), we affirmed the Juvenile Court judge's denial of the motion to dismiss...

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