The lawyer for Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman convicted of coercing her boyfriend over text messages into killing himself when she was a teen, says he is planning to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take up her case. The free speech issues raised by her case should be judged by the highest court in the country, her attorney Joseph Cataldo told The Boston Herald. He confirmed in a court motion filed Friday that he plans to petition the Supreme Court to take up her case, according to documents obtained by NBC News. “This is an extremely important issue,” he told The Boston Herald, “and the Supreme Court should weigh this and what is [sic] says about today’s technology. It’s hugely important to address this issue.”On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld Carter’s June 2017 involuntary manslaughter conviction over the 2014 death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III.

Source: Huffington Post February 08, 2019 23:48 UTC