The two exchanged hundreds of text messages for several days before Roy killed himself. And can a person be found guilty of killing someone based solely on what she said in text messages? Shortly after Roy died, Carter told a friend that she was talking to him on the phone when he killed himself. Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, said Carter’s text messages arguably encouraged Roy. “This defendant acted remotely only through communication, through text messages, and that’s different,” Siegel said.

Source: thestar June 06, 2017 18:56 UTC