Urging Boyfriend to Suicide Brings Murder Charge.

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Urging someone to commit suicide could be hazardous to your freedom.

Source: "Teen who urged suicide via text will stand trial, court rules"

And she was his "girlfriend"???

A "systematic campaign of coercion" to get a depressed person to commit suicide should be hazardous to your life,

She told him to use a generator to speed up the monoxide poisoning

Apparently the girl had her own mental problems and had stayed in a mental intuition, from one article I read. But that doesn't excuse what she did at all. Manslaughter is an appropriate charge because she knew he was suicidal and she pushed him to do it. Her attorneys tried to get the case dismissed by freedom of speech, which didn't work. They'll probably use the fact that Massachusetts doesn't have a law that makes it a crime to assist in another's suicide in order to get her off.

She'll get off
but I hope it stays in news long enough or her name to sink in and she become a social pariah that no sane person will trust, much less date.

My Opinion is that if she's convicted, then she will serve a reduced sentence; and if she's acquitted, it will be under an "insanity plea".

I doubt that she will serve any time in prison, if she hasn't already, because the law is lenient against pretty, teenaged girls who haven't personally committed a violent crime.

How can recommending suicide be a felony? She did not threaten the 18 year old boy with bodily harm nor did she extort him. Her behavior is well beyond the pale of social acceptability, but I don't see how what she did can be considered a felony. She should be shunned, but not imprisoned.

I agree; but if her trial results in a conviction, and that conviction is not overturned on appeal, then it will have set a precedent for arresting and prosecuting anyone who says "Go ahead and do it" whenever someone else threatens to commit suicide.

Free speech is being threatened ... again ...

This girl seems like a sociopath, an evil person who acted in a deliberate predatory fashion. She probably won't see any time but people like her should not be on the street, she should be locked up and it should set precedent. Free speech has it limits and this is and should be beyond it, you've all heard that you can't scream fire in crowd movie house.

Agreed this has similarities to yelling fire in a crowded theater. And people yelling "do it"
to a suicidal person threatening to jump should face legal consequences.

The courts have set the limits in the U.S. Fomenting a riot, panic, insurrection or a lynching is NOT protected speech. Talking someone into suicide does not fall under that category.

Sounded like the kid had more value to her dead so she could play the role of grieving friend. Even portrayed herself as some sort of advocate. At one point he tried to get out of the car when he had second thoughts and she harassed him into getting back in and finishing the job. To portray this case as an attack on free speech is just a cynical exploitation of the constitution.

I do not believe maliciously pushing a suicidal person to suicide is protected speech, this wasn't a comment or internet posting that put someone over the edge but a systematic campaign by a sociopath who bragged to her friends afterwards. People like her should not be walking the streets. I would put this in that same category, hopefully the courts agree

She is not charged with murder. She is charged with manslaughter. She SHOULD be charged with murder. She is a narcissistic little b***h. If she doesn't do some serious jail time, it will be a sad day for America.

Fact-checking my legal dictionary ...I stand corrected.