Teen Suicide Texting Conviction Denied Supreme Court Review

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of a Massachusetts woman convicted “with her words alone” for the death of a fellow teen who killed himself in 2014.

By rejecting Michelle Carter’s appeal, the justices passed on the opportunity to draw a line between free speech and criminality in the unique case with First Amendment implications.

Carter “neither physically provided the means of death nor physically participated in the suicide or was even close to the scene,” her lawyers told the justices in seeking review of her conviction for the death of Conrad Roy. He died by carbon ...