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The article is entitled “Teen charged with bullying boyfriend via text message to kill himself”. It is a Massachusetts criminal law case that is about a 17-year-old girl named Michelle Carter essentially pressuring her boyfriend into committing suicide .These pressuring text messages with her late 18- year-old boyfriend Conrad Roy III ultimately resulted in the teen being charged with involuntary manslaughter. The article displays both the prosecution and defence for this case with defense stating that Carter initially tried discouraged Carter from committing suicide and only supported his decision after thinking that his mind was made up. The text messages they used to support their claim included a text from Carter to Roy a month before
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