Update: Michelle Carter denied parole
NATICK, Mass. (WLNE) — Michelle Carter, convicted for talking her boyfriend into killing himself, is now hoping to be granted parole.
She appeared at the Massachusetts Parole board in Natick on Thursday, asking to be let out early — 7 months into her 15-month sentence.
The family of Conrad Roy, her former boyfriend, was in attendance at the hearing, which was closed to the press and the general public.
Roy killed himself in 2014, dying from carbon monoxide poisoning, breathing toxic fumes from a gas-powered water pump he placed in the back of his truck.
He and Carter texted and called each other before he died.
When Roy seemed to get cold feet, Carter allegedly encouraged him to get back in the truck.
Prosecutors say Carter, who was 17 at the time, pushed Roy to kill himself because she wanted attention and sympathy from classmates.
Carter’s attorney argued Roy was already planning to take his own life, as he had previously attempted suicide.
Carter was jailed this past February, after Massachusetts’ highest court unanimously upheld her 2017 involuntary manslaughter conviction.
Her attorneys are asking the United States Supreme Court to review the case.
The parole board plans to make a decision soon after the Thursday hearing.
Members of the Roy family left the hearing without comment.
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The Massachusetts Parole Board decided to deny the request for parole on Friday in this texting suicide case.
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