Michelle Carter scheduled to be sentenced today

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TAUNTON, Mass. (WLNE) — A judge is expected to issue a sentence Thursday afternoon for Michelle Carter.

The Plainville woman was convicted for texting her boyfriend to commit suicide back in 2014.

ABC6 News learned more about what the families of Carter and Conrad Roy III plan on telling the judge in court.

Those impact statements were released Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s proceedings. In them, the aunt of Conrad Roy III, Kim Bozzi, is asking for the maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars. On the contrary, Carter’s father is begging the judge for probation.

In June, the court ruled that Carter’s texts pressured her boyfriend to follow through with his suicide and failed to call for help.

ABC6 News legal analyst, Ken Schreiber, says this verdict sets a new standard.

“Her words alone caused her to face a sentence of 20 years,” said Schreiber. “We’re not applying these laws, based on this verdict, in my opinion, in a consistent manner.”

Roy’s aunt, Kim Bozzi, is pushing for the maximum 20 year sentence saying that “she should be kept far away from society. Take away the spotlight that she so craves.”

Carter’s father also plans on reading a statement to the judge.

In a letter sent to the Boston Herald, he asks for continued counseling for his daughter calling her “a troubled vulnerable teenager who made a tragic mistake in an extremely difficult situation.”

“He was making efforts to better himself and to find his way through a difficult stage of his life,” said prosecutor Katie Rayburn.

Roy died inside his car at the Fairhaven Kmart parking lot back in 2014.

Carter was released on bail with conditions not to use social media or contact any of the witnesses or the Roy family. She has been at home since the end of her trial.

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