Judge: Woman's statements allowed in texting suicide trial
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Massachusetts judge has ruled that statements made by a woman who sent her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself can be used by prosecutors at her manslaughter trial.
The Sun Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/2eEvxmv ) a Taunton Juvenile Court judge on Tuesday denied a motion by 20-year-old Michelle Carter's lawyers to suppress statements she made to police.
Carter is charged in the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III. Roy's body was found in his pickup truck in Fairhaven. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Carter had claimed that statements she made to police three months after Roy's death were illegally obtained because she was not told she had a right to a lawyer.
A trial date hasn't been set. A pretrial status hearing is scheduled for Dec. 1.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: The (Attleboro, Mass.) Sun Chronicle, http://www.thesunchronicle.com