And can a person be found guilty of killing someone based solely on what she said in text messages? The prosecution’s most damning evidence against Carter, who is now 20: dozens upon dozens of text messages in which she was pushing Roy to commit suicide. The two exchanged hundreds of text messages for several days before Roy killed himself. Shortly after Roy died, Carter told a friend that she was talking to him on the phone when he killed himself. “This defendant acted remotely only through communication, through text messages, and that’s different,” Siegel said.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2017 10:06 UTC